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ArticleRespiratory research2018

Impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages as a determinant of disease phenotypes from an immigrant rich moderate tuberculosis burden country.

Bright Varghese, Mushira Enani, Abdulrahman Alrajhi, Sameera Al Johani, Ali Albarak, Sahar Althawadi, Noura Elkhizzi, Hawra AlGhafli, Mohammed Shoukri, Sahal Al-Hajoj

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Article in Respiratory research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Bright VargheseDepartment of Infection and Immunity, MBC-03, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Post Box # 3354, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Mushira EnaniMedical Specialties Department, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrahman AlrajhiDepartment of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sameera Al JohaniDepartment of Microbiology, King Abdul Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ali AlbarakDepartment of Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sahar AlthawadiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Noura ElkhizziDepartment of Microbiology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hawra AlGhafliDepartment of Infection and Immunity, MBC-03, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Post Box # 3354, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed ShoukriNational Biotechnology Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sahal Al-HajojDepartment of Infection and Immunity, MBC-03, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Post Box # 3354, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia. hajoj@kfshrc.edu.sa.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SARiyadh Armed Forces Hospital · SAKing Abdulaziz Medical City · SAKing Fahd Medical City · SA

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King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology AT-34-103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGrowing evidences suggested that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) lineages can determine the clinical outcome of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. However, limited data only available revealing such association of bacterial genotypes and clinical phenotypes from immigrant rich countries.

methodsA multicenter study has been carried out on a collection of 2092 (1003 extrapulmonary and 1089 pulmonary) MTBC isolates. Genotyping of all the isolates were carried out by spoligotyping and 24 loci based MIRU-VNTR typing.

resultsDemographically domination of young Saudi nationals (61.4%) and men (61.2%) were found in this cohort. Lymph nodes (62.4%) and gastrointestinal sites (16.7%) were the most common anatomical sites of infection. The predominant lineages were Delhi/CAS (26.9%), EAI (14.2%) and Ghana (9.9%). Mycobacterium africanum type I and II were reported for the first time in the country among extrapulmonary cases. 'Ancestral' lineages M.bovis (OR-5.22; 95% CI-2.23-8.22, p- < 0.001) and Delhi/CAS (OR-0.57; 95% CI-0.411-0.734, p- < 0.001) were directly associated with lymph node tuberculosis and gastrointestinal tuberculosis (M. bovis-OR-0.33; 95% CI-0.085-0.567, p-0.001 and Delhi/CAS-OR-1.87; 95% CI-1.22-2.53, p- < 0.001) respectively. Among the 'Modern' lineages, EAI showed significant association to central nervous system tuberculosis (OR-1.98; 95% CI-0.76-3.19, p-0.04) and Uganda-I to gastrointestinal tuberculosis (OR-2.41; 95% CI-0.77-4.06, p-0.02).

conclusionsThe findings substantially contribute to the emerging evidences that MTBC lineages influence disease phenotypes and epidemiological consequences.

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Cost of IllnessEmigrants and ImmigrantsPhenotypeAdolescentAdultCell LineageChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisDisease phenotypesExtrapulmonary tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosis complexSaudi ArabiaTuberculosis

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