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First molecular epidemiological study of tuberculosis in Benin

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OBJECTIVES: To assess the diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Cotonou, Benin, and the risk factors associated with clustering. METHODS: We analysed one sputum sample from 194 consecutive new pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases using two genotyping methods: spoligotyping and the 12 loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR). The data obtained were compared to the SpolDB4.0 database. RESULTS: We have found that spoligotype 61, highly predominant in West Africa, was also the most prevalent strain in Cotonou. We observed that the Beijing family represented 10.3% of strains and was associated with resistance to streptomycin. We also confirmed that combining spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR provided a higher discriminatory power than the two techniques used individually. CONCLUSION: Spoligotype 61 and Beijing genotype are the most prevalent genotypes of M. tuberculosis in Cotonou.
Tijdschrift: International journal of tuberculosis and lung disease
ISSN: 1027-3719
Volume: 13
Pagina's: 317 - 322
Jaar van publicatie:2009