Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
Dispatch
Mycobacterial Lineages Causing Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Ethiopia
Rebuma Firdessa12, Stefan Berg1, Elena Hailu1, Esther Schelling, Balako Gumi, Girume Erenso, Endalamaw Gadisa, Teklu Kiros, Meseret Habtamu, Jemal Hussein, Jakob Zinsstag, Brian D. Robertson, Gobena Ameni, Amanda J. Lohan, Brendan Loftus, Iñaki Comas, Sebastien Gagneux, Rea Tschopp, Lawrence Yamuah, Glyn Hewinson, Stephen V. Gordon, Douglas B. Young, and Abraham Aseffa
Table 1
Mycobacterium spp. and strains, Ethiopia, 2006–2010*
| Collection site | Pulmonary TB |
TBLN |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. tuberculosis‡ |
M. bovis | NTM | M. tuberculosis‡ |
M. bovis | NTM | |||||||||
| Total | L4 | L3 | L7 | L1 | Total | L4 | L3 | L7 | L1 | |||||
| Gondar | 92 | 32 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Woldiya | 23 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 54 | 43 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Ghimbi | 47 | 40 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 58 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiche‡ | 169 | 128 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Addis Ababa‡ | 60 | 50 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Butajira | 70 | 60 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 91 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negelle/Filtu/Jinka | 161 | 123 | 28 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Total isolates | 622 | 442 | 153 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 328 | 229 | 79 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Total M. tuberculosis % | 100 | 71.1 | 24.6 | 2.7 | 1.6 | NA | NA | 100 | 69.8 | 24.1 | 5.8 | 0.3 | NA | NA |
*Values are no. isolates. TB, tuberculosis; TBLN, TB lymphadenitis in cervical lymph nodes; NTM, nontuberculous mycobacteria; NA, not applicable.
†Lineage of M. tuberculosis is expressed by an L followed by a digit.
‡TBLN samples were not collected in Fiche and Addis Ababa.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
2Current affiliation: University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
