TY - JOUR AU - Singh, Urvashi Balbir AU - Suresh, Naga AU - Bhanu, N.Vijaya AU - Arora, Jyoti AU - Pant, Hema AU - Sinha, Sanjeev AU - Aggarwal, Ram Charan AU - Singh, Sushma AU - Pande, Jitendra Nath AU - Sola, Christophe AU - Rastogi, Nalin AU - Seth, Pradeep T1 - Predominant Tuberculosis Spoligotypes, Delhi, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 6 SP - 1138 SN - 1080-6059 AB - One hundred five Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from the Delhi area were typed by spoligotyping; 45 patterns were identified. Comparison with an international spoligotype database showed type 26, Delhi type (22%), type 54 (12%), and type 1, Beijing type (8%), as the most common. Eighteen spoligotypes did not match any existing database pattern. KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - spoligotyping KW - spoligotype KW - cluster KW - direct repeat locus KW - dendrogram KW - prevalence KW - spoligo database KW - transmission KW - CAS-I family KW - Beijing genotype KW - India DO - 10.3201/eid1006.030575 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/6/03-0575_article ER - End of Reference