Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Dispatch
Spoligotyping of Mycobacterium africanum, Burkina Faso
Michel K. Gomgnimbou, Guislaine Refrégier, Serge P. Diagbouga, Sanou Adama, Antoinette Kaboré, Adama Ouiminga, and Christophe Sola
Table
Distribution of classified genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Burkina Faso*
| Clade† | No. (%) isolates, n = 72‡ |
|---|---|
| CAM | 18 (25) |
| Including CAM_family prototype = SIT61 | 14 (19) |
| Other CAM | 4 (6) |
| T | 16 (22.2) |
| Including T1 | 10 (13.9) |
| Undefined T1-T2 | 2 (2.8) |
| T2 | 1 (1.4) |
| T3 | 1 (1.4) |
| T5_MAD2 | 2 (2.8) |
| Haarlem | 10 (13.9) |
| Including H1 | 7 (9.7) |
| H3 | 3 (4.2) |
| X | 4 (5.6) |
| Including X3 | 1 (1.4) |
| M. africanum I (WA I and WA 2) | 16 (22.2) |
| M. bovis | 1 (1.4) |
| CAS1_Delhi | 5 (6.9) |
| LAM9 | 1 (1.4) |
| Beijing | 1 (1.4) |
*CAM, Cameroon; SIT, spoligo-international type; WA, West African; CAS, Central Asian; LAM, Latino American–Mediterranean.
†Described in (9).
‡Excludes 4 new and 4 unclassified genotypes.
