Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Dispatch
Mycobacterium bovis Strains Causing Smear-Positive Human Tuberculosis, Southwest Ireland
Olabisi Ojo, Stella Sheehan, G. Daniel Corcoran, Melissa Okker, Karen Gover, Vladyslav Nikolayevsky, Timothy Brown, James Dale, Stephen V. Gordon1, Francis Drobniewski, and Michael B. Prentice
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.
