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Volume 19, Number 12—December 2013
Dispatch
Novel Cause of Tuberculosis in Meerkats, South Africa
Sven D.C. Parsons
, Julian A. Drewe, Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius, Robin M. Warren, and Paul D. van Helden
, Julian A. Drewe, Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius, Robin M. Warren, and Paul D. van Helden
Table 2
MIRU-VNTR patterns of Mycobacterium suricattae and representative isolates of selected members of the M. tuberculosis complex*
| Locus | MIRU-VNTR copy number |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. africanum† | M. mungi† | M. suricattae | Dassie bacillus† | |
| MIRU 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| VNTR 424/Mtub04 | 4 | 3 | 3‡, 2§ | 2 |
| VNTR 577/ETR-C | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| MIRU 4/ETR-D | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| MIRU 40 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| MIRU 10 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| MIRU 16 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| VNTR 1955/Mtub21 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| MIRU 20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| VNTR 2163b/QUB11b | 5 | – | – | 7 |
| VNTR 2165/ETR-A | 6 | 6 | – | 6 |
| VNTR2347/Mtub29 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| VNTR 2401/Mtub30 | 4 | 4 | 4‡, 5§ | 3 |
| VNTR 2461/ETR-B | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| MIRU 23 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| MIRU 24 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| MIRU 26 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| MIRU 27 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| VNTR 3171/Mtub 34 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| MIRU 31/ETR-E | 5 | 8 and 9 | 5 | 5 |
| VNTR 3690/Mtub 39 | 4 | – | 8 | 5 |
| VNTR 4052/QUB 26 | 6 | – | 3 | 4 |
| VNTR 4156/QUB 4156 | 3 | – | 1 | 3 |
| MIRU 39 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
*MIRU-VNTR, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit–variable number tandem repeats; –, no amplification.
†From Alexander et al., 2010 (4).
‡Copy number of 3 isolates from 2 meerkats, including MK172.
§Copy number of a fourth isolate from a third meerkat.
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