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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Differentiation of Tuberculosis Strains in a Population with Mainly Beijing-family Strains

Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy*, Krishna Gopaul*, Yanina Balabanova*†, Timothy Brown*, Ivan Fedorin†, and Francis Drobniewski*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom; †Samara Regional Tuberculosis Service, Samara, Russia

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Table 2

Prevalence of Beijing strains in clusters (15-loci MIRU-ETR analysis)*†

Cluster no. Size No. repeats in MIRU-ETR loci
MIRU
ETR
2 4 10 16 20 23 24 26 27 31 39 40 A B C
1 3 2 2 3 1 2 5 1 4 3 3 2 4 3 2 3
2 2 2 2 3 3 2 6 1 5 3 3 2 5 3 2 3
3 3 2 2 3 3 2 5 1 5 3 4 3 3 4 2 3
4 75 2 2 3 3 2 5 1 5 3 5 3 3 4 2 3
5 3 2 3 3 3 2 5 1 5 3 5 3 3 4 2 3
6 2 2 2 1 3 2 5 1 7 3 5 3 3 4 2 3
7 31 2 2 3 3 2 5 1 7 3 5 3 3 4 2 3
8 2 2 2 3 3 2 5 1 3 3 6 3 3 4 2 3
9 2 2 2 7 2 2 5 1 1 3 2 2 3 4 2 4
10 3 1 2 4 3 2 5 1 5 3 2 2 5 2 2 1

*MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units; ETR, exact tandem repeats.
†Clusters 3–8 had 100% Beijing strains; the other clusters had none.

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