Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Tuberculosis in the Caribbean: Using Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing to Understand Strain Origin and Transmission

Christophe Sola, Anne Devallois, Lionel Horgen, Jérôme Maïsetti, Ingrid Filliol, Eric Legrand, and Nalin Rastogi

Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe

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A dendrogram illustrating spoligotyping results of 16 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Barbados and Surinam. From top: type 53, ubiquitous; isolates Barb.3 and 94030 belong to specific types 68 and 15, respectively; isolates 94018, 94020, 94034, and Barb.1 belong to ubiquitous types 19, 1, 3, and 61, respectively.

Figure 6. A dendrogram illustrating spoligotyping results of 16 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Barbados and Surinam. From top: type 53, ubiquitous; isolates Barb.3 and 94030 belong to specific types 68 and 15, respectively; isolates 94018, 94020, 94034, and Barb.1 belong to ubiquitous types 19, 1, 3, and 61, respectively.

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