Volume 16, Number 2—February 2010
Research
Associations between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains and Phenotypes
Table 4
Minimum number of unique types seen within each Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotype family, by resistance or susceptibility to 5 antimicrobial drugs, United Kingdom*
| Spoligotype family | No. types, by drug resistance or drug susceptibility |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STR-R | STR-S | INH-R | INH-S | ETH-R | ETH-S | RIF-R | RIF-S | PZA-R | PZA-S | MDR+ | MDR– | |
| Beijing | 10 | 40 | 13 | 38 | 3 | 43 | 5 | 43 | 1 | 45 | 5 | 45 |
| CAS | 14 | 202 | 30 | 198 | 1 | 206 | 3 | 206 | 2 | 206 | 3 | 206 |
| EAI | 8 | 244 | 23 | 234 | 3 | 247 | 4 | 247 | 1 | 248 | 4 | 247 |
| European American | 45 | 451 | 59 | 441 | 5 | 475 | 19 | 467 | 6 | 474 | 10 | 470 |
| M. bovis BCG | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Family 33–36 | 5 | 39 | 4 | 41 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 44 |
| M. africanum | 2 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 |
*STR, streptomycin; R, resistant; S, susceptible; INH, isoniazid; ETH, erythromycin; RIF, rifampin; PZA, pyrazinamide; MDR, multidrug-resistant; CAS, Central Asian; EAI, East African–Indian.
