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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Predominance of Ancestral Lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in India

M. Cristina Gutierrez*1, Niyaz Ahmed†1, Eve Willery‡, Sujatha Narayanan§, Seyed E. Hasnain†, Devendra S. Chauhan¶, Vishwa M. Katoch¶, Véronique Vincent*, Camille Locht‡, and Philip Supply‡Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; †Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India; ‡Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France; §Tuberculosis Research Center, Chennai, India; ¶National Jalma Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India

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Figure 1

Genetic relationships of Indian Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. The dendrogram based on mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units–variable-number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) genotypes, generated by using the neighbor-joining algorithm, was rooted with M. canettii, the most divergent member of the M. tuberculosis complex. Corresponding spoligotypes of the TbD1+/EAI isolates, additional genogroups, principal genetic group (PGG), and M. tuberculosis–specific deletion region 1 (TbD1) status ar

Figure 1. Genetic relationships of Indian Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. The dendrogram based on mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units–variable-number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) genotypes, generated by using the neighbor-joining algorithm, was rooted with M. canettii, the most divergent member of the M. tuberculosis complex. Corresponding spoligotypes of the TbD1+/EAI isolates, additional genogroups, principal genetic group (PGG), and M. tuberculosis–specific deletion region 1 (TbD1) status are indicated. Indian isolates included in the collection of Kremer et al. (16) were included as references. LAM, Latin American–Mediterranean; CAS, Central Asian; EAI, East Africa–Indian.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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