Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Dispatch
Mycobacterium bovis Strains Causing Smear-Positive Human Tuberculosis, Southwest Ireland
Table 1
Heterogeneity of each MIRU-VNTR locus of Mycobacterium bovis isolates, southwest Ireland, 1998–2006*
VNTR locus | Isolate | No. tandem repeat copies |
HGDI | Allelic variants | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
1895 | QUB1895 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.47 | 3 |
2163a | QUB11a | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0.69 | 3 |
2163b | QUB11b | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.47 | 3 |
2165 | ETR-A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.47 | 3 |
2461 | ETR-B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.49 | 4 |
2687 | MIRU24 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.55 | 2 |
2996 | MIRU26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.60 | 4 |
3232 | QUB3232 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.62 | 5 |
3336 | QUB3336 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.67 | 4 |
4052 | QUB26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.47 | 3 |
*MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units; VNTR, variable-number tandem repeats; HGDI, Hunter Gaston Discriminatory Index; QUB, Queen’s University Belfast; ETR, exact tandem repeat.