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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Kaohsiung City located at southern Taiwan, 2000-2008.
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- Evidence for Host-Bacterial Co-evolution via Genome Sequence Analysis of 480 Thai Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 1 Isolates.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Combining molecular typing and spatial pattern analysis to identify areas of high tuberculosis transmission in a moderate-incidence county in Taiwan.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Using genotyping to delineate tuberculosis transmission in long-term care facilities: single facility 4-year experience.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Persistently high prevalence of primary resistance and multidrug resistance of tuberculosis in Heilongjiang Province, China.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
- A pulmonary tuberculosis outbreak in a long-term care facility.Epidemiology and infection · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe present the first comprehensive analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates circulating in southern Taiwan. In this 9-year population-based study, the TB situation in the Kaohsiung region was characterized by genotypic analysis of 421 MTB isolates.
methodsAll 421 isolates of MTB were analyzed by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing. Drug-resistance patterns were also analyzed.
resultsThe percentage of EAI (East African-Indian) strains increased across sampling years (2000-2008) in southern Taiwan, whereas the proportion of Beijing lineages remained unchanged. Clustering was more frequent with EAI genotype infections (odds ratio = 3.6, p<0.0001) when compared to Beijing genotypes. Notably, MTB resistance to streptomycin (STR) had significantly increased over time, but resistance to other antibiotics, including multidrug resistance, had not. Three major genes (gidB, rpsL and rrs) implicated in STR resistance were sequenced and specific mutations identified.
conclusionsThis study revealed that EAI strains were highly transmissible and that STR resistance has increased between 2000 and 2008 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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