Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Molecular Differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains without IS6110 Insertions

Kerry H. Lok*, William H. Benjamin*, Michael E. Kimerling*

, Virginia Pruitt†, Monica Lathan‡, Jafar Razeq‡, Nancy Hooper‡, Wendy Cronin‡, and Nancy E. Dunlap*

Author affiliations: *University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; †Alabama Department of Public Health, Montgomery, Alabama, USA; ‡Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;

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Zero-copy IS6110 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from previously reported studies, other studies from the National Tuberculosis Genotyping Surveillance Network, and strains from current study^a

No./case	Spoligotype octal description	CDC designation	Country of origin	Yr reported	Source of data
1	N/A	N/A	India	1993	(10)
3	N/A	N/A	Hong Kong	1995	(5)
5	N/A	N/A	India	1995	(5)
3	577767000000011	N/A	Asia	1997	(12)
1	777777777760771	0002	Curacao	1999	(13)
1	477776501013071	N/A	India	1999	(13)
1	777701002001731	N/A	the Netherlands	1999	(13)
1	N/A	N/A	United States	Unpublished	Arkansas
1	777777777760700	0202	China	Unpublished	California
8	777777000000011	0258	Vietnam	Unpublished	California
1	777603000000011	1682	Vietnam	Unpublished	California
1	777777600007771	1128	North Korea	Unpublished	California
1	777777000000011	0258	Vietnam	Unpublished	Michigan
1	777603002000011	0870	Vietnam	Unpublished	Texas
1	N/A	N/A	Vietnam	Unpublished	Texas
1	000000000003771	0034	N/A	2000	(17)
2	777777000000011	0258	Vietnam	2001	(18)
1	777603000000011	1682	Vietnam	2001	(18)
1	741777000000011	n/a	Vietnam	2001	(18)
2	777647000000011	n/a	United States	2001	(18)
3	777777000000011	0258	Vietnam	2002	Study isolates 1–3
1	700100000000731	0968	Iraq	2002	Study isolates 4
1	577600000000000	0742	India	2002	Study isolates 5
1	777777777763771	0169	Liberia	2002	Study isolates 6
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