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ArticleMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2013

Characterisation of pks15/1 in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Mexico.

Roberto Zenteno-Cuevas, Francisco X Silva-Hernández, Fabiola Mendoza-Damián, Maria Dolores Ramírez-Hernández, Karen Vázquez-Medina, Lorena Widrobo-García, Aremy Cuellar-Sanchez, Raquel Muñíz-Salazar, Leonor Enciso-Moreno, Lucia Monserrat Pérez-Navarro and 1 more

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Article in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Frontiers in medicine · 2025
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  2. Bead-captured Mycobacterium tuberculosis for next-generation sequencing diagnosis of uncultured tuberculosis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020
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  3. Circulation ofPathogens and global health · 2019
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Roberto Zenteno-CuevasInstituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, México.
Francisco X Silva-Hernández
Fabiola Mendoza-Damián
Maria Dolores Ramírez-Hernández
Karen Vázquez-Medina
Lorena Widrobo-García
Aremy Cuellar-Sanchez
Raquel Muñíz-Salazar
Leonor Enciso-Moreno
Lucia Monserrat Pérez-Navarro
José Antonio Enciso-Moreno
Instituto de Salud del Estado de México · MXUniversidad Veracruzana · MXMexican Social Security Institute · MXUniversidad Autónoma de Baja California · MX

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectocontagious respiratory disease caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. A 7 base pair (bp) deletion in the locus polyketide synthase (pks)15/1 is described as polymorphic among members of the M. tuberculosis complex, enabling the identification of Euro-American, Indo-Oceanic and Asian lineages. The aim of this study was to characterise this locus in TB isolates from Mexico. One hundred twenty clinical isolates were recovered from the states of Veracruz and Estado de Mexico. We determined the nucleotide sequence of a ± 400 bp fragment of the locus pks15/1, while genotypic characterisation was performed by spoligotyping. One hundred and fifty isolates contained the 7 bp deletion, while five had the wild type locus. Lineages X (22%), LAM (18%) and T (17%) were the most frequent; only three (2%) of the isolates were identified as Beijing and two (1%) EAI-Manila. The wild type pks15/1 locus was observed in all Asian lineage isolates tested. Our results confirm the utility of locus pks15/1 as a molecular marker for identifying Asian lineages of the M. tuberculosis complex. This marker could be of great value in the epidemiological surveillance of TB, especially in countries like Mexico, where the prevalence of such lineages is unknown.

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AdultBacterial ProteinsBase SequenceDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialEpidemiological MonitoringFemaleGenes, BacterialGenetic LociGenetic MarkersHumansMaleMexicoMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisPolyketide SynthasesPolymerase Chain ReactionBacterial ProteinsGenetic MarkersPKS15 protein, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37RvPolyketide Synthases

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PMID24037193
PMCPMC3970685
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