| Literature DB >> 17686185 |
Asho Ali1, Zahra Hasan, Mahnaz Tanveer, Amna R Siddiqui, Solomon Ghebremichael, Gunilla Kallenius, Rumina Hasan.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Central Asian Strain 1 (CAS1) genogroup of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the most prevalent in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing is a reliable and reproducible method for differentiation of MTB isolates. However, information of its utility in determining the diversity of CAS1 strain is limited. We performed standard 12 loci based MIRU-VNTR typing on previously spoligotyped CAS1 strains and 'unique' strains in order to evaluate its discriminatory power for these isolates.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17686185 PMCID: PMC1988810 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-76
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Microbiol ISSN: 1471-2180 Impact factor: 3.605
Figure 1MIRU-VNTR typing of . Three hundred and sixty seven strains were typed and a cluster analysis was carried out using Bionumerics software using the unweighted pair group method. The 178 CAS1 strains studied showed an overall homology of >70%. No MIRU clusters were observed between any of the 189 'unique' strains studied.
Allelic diversity of 367 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan.
| 18 | 85 | 262 | 2 | 0.4355 | 11 | *Moderately discriminant | |||||||
| 21 | 13 | 290 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 0.3670 | 12 | Moderately discriminant | ||||
| 18 | 4 | 29 | 48 | 73 | 133 | 50 | 8 | 4 | 0.7862 | 3 | #Highly discriminant | ||
| 43 | 19 | 46 | 126 | 83 | 40 | 9 | 1 | 0.7885 | 2 | Highly discriminant | |||
| 22 | 60 | 248 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0.5080 | 10 | Moderately discriminant | ||||
| 11 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 49 | 234 | 42 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0.5616 | 8 | Moderately discriminant | |
| 77 | 238 | 34 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0.5271 | 9 | Moderately discriminant | ||||
| 9 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 31 | 58 | 96 | 84 | 30 | 3 | 0.8337 | 1 | Highly discriminant | |
| 20 | 23 | 107 | 167 | 42 | 8 | 0.6893 | 7 | Highly discriminant | |||||
| 18 | 4 | 30 | 101 | 116 | 73 | 25 | 0.7731 | 4 | Highly discriminant | ||||
| 22 | 60 | 153 | 116 | 15 | 1 | 0.6962 | 6 | Highly discriminant | |||||
| 11 | 31 | 116 | 150 | 51 | 6 | 2 | 0.7073 | 5 | Highly discriminant | ||||
| Average | 0.6394 | ||||||||||||
Discriminatory Index:#≥0.6 = Highly Discriminant and *0.3–0.59 = Moderately Discriminant
Twelve MIRU loci analysis of CAS1 and 'unique' spoligotypes
| 2 | 0.4953 | Moderately discriminant | 0.3859 | Moderately discriminant | 0.105 |
| 4 | 0.2676 | Poorly discriminant | 0.4540 | Moderately discriminant | 0.000* |
| 10 | 0.7449 | Highly discriminant | 0.8190 | Highly discriminant | 0.004* |
| 16 | 0.7503 | Highly discriminant | 0.7760 | Highly discriminant | 0.325 |
| 20 | 0.5993 | Moderately discriminant | 0.4242 | Moderately discriminant | 0.124 |
| 23 | 0.5211 | Moderately discriminant | 0.6099 | Highly discriminant | 0.126 |
| 24 | 0.5709 | Moderately discriminant | 0.4966 | Moderately discriminant | 0.436 |
| 26 | 0.8117 | Highly discriminant | 0.8511 | Highly discriminant | 0.000* |
| 27 | 0.7588 | Highly discriminant | 0.6151 | Highly discriminant | 0.909 |
| 31 | 0.7772 | Highly discriminant | 0.7756 | Highly discriminant | 0.340 |
| 39 | 0.7090 | Highly discriminant | 0.6775 | Highly discriminant | 0.732 |
| 40 | 0.6970 | Highly discriminant | 0.7228 | Highly discriminant | 0.661 |
| Average: 0.6419 | Average: 0.6339 | ||||
Significantly different loci are indicated by '*' (P value < 0.05)
Figure 2IS. The figure illustrates a composite analysis of IS6110-RFLP and MIRU-VNTR of 78 MTB strains using Bionumerics software (Applied Maths). The strains included 29 CAS1 and 49 'unique' strains. * denotes CAS1 strains exhibiting heterogeneous IS6110-RFLP profiles.
MIRU loci analysis of MDR M tuberculosis
| 2 | 0.5944 | Moderately discriminant | 0.4983 | Moderately discriminant | 0.463 |
| 4 | 0.2871 | Poorly discriminant | 0.4689 | Moderately discriminant | 0.007* |
| 10 | 0.7536 | Highly discriminant | 0.8092 | Highly discriminant | 0.142 |
| 16 | 0.7784 | Highly discriminant | 0.7582 | Highly discriminant | 0.188 |
| 20 | 0.6076 | Highly discriminant | 0.3662 | Moderately discriminant | 0.098 |
| 23 | 0.5463 | Moderately discriminant | 0.5311 | Moderately discriminant | 0.862 |
| 24 | 0.5219 | Moderately discriminant | 0.4780 | Moderately discriminant | 0.266 |
| 26 | 0.8080 | Highly discriminant | 0.8609 | Highly discriminant | 0.100 |
| 27 | 0.7504 | Highly discriminant | 0.5542 | Moderately discriminant | 0.955 |
| 31 | 0.7583 | Highly discriminant | 0.7659 | Highly discriminant | 0.934 |
| 39 | 0.7155 | Highly discriminant | 0.6003 | Highly discriminant | 0.465 |
| 40 | 0.7150 | Highly discriminant | 0.7358 | Highly discriminant | 0.332 |
| Average: 0.6530 | Average: 0.6189 | ||||
*Locus 4 between the two is significantly different (P value < 0.05)