Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research
Differentiation of Tuberculosis Strains in a Population with Mainly Beijing-family Strains
Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy*, Krishna Gopaul*, Yanina Balabanova*†, Timothy Brown*, Ivan Fedorin†, and Francis Drobniewski*
Table 5
Frequency of an expanded set of 25 VNTR-MIRU alleles and allelic diversity for each locus for Beijing strains*†
| Locus | No. repeats |
HGDI | No. AV | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 26 | |||
| 424 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.061 | 3 |
| 531 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 1 | 0.016 | 2 |
| 1955 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 122 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.105 | 4 |
| 1982 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 2 | 86 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.489 | 7 |
| 2074 | 0 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2163a | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 117 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.177 | 7 |
| 3232 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 62 | 1 | 50 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.621 | 10 |
| 3239 | 0 | 2 | 126 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.046 | 3 |
| 3336 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 124 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.076 | 5 |
| 3690 | 1 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.016 | 2 |
*N = 129; VNTR, variable-number tandem repeats; MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units; HGDI, Hunter-Gaston discriminatory index; AV, allelic variants.
†No loci had allelic variants with 11, 18, 19, and 21–24 repeats.
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