Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
Research
Progenitor “Mycobacterium canettii” Clone Responsible for Lymph Node Tuberculosis Epidemic, Djibouti
Table 1
Characteristics of patients from whom Mycobacterium canettii isolates were obtained, Djibouti, 2010–2013*
Strain no. | Patient nationality (length of stay, mo) | Hospital | Sex | Isolation date | Age, y† | Sample | TB site | HIV status (CD4/mm3) | Cluster |
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Percy975 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2010 Feb | 28 | GF | Pulmonary | Pos (122) | A‡ |
Percy976 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2010 Feb | 18 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | A |
Percy977 | Diboutian | Bouffard | F | 2010 Feb | 22 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | A |
Percy979 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | F | 2010 Feb | 39 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | A |
Percy1004 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2010 Jun | 14 | LN puncture | LN | Neg | Singleton‡ |
Percy1049 | Ethiopian (18) | Bouffard | F | 2011 Jan | 36 | GF | Pulmonary | Pos (9) | A |
Percy1060§ | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2011 Feb | 33 | Sputum | Diffuse | Pos (235) | A |
Percy1062 | French (8) | Bouffard | M | 2011 Mar | 40 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | C |
Percy1064 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2011 Mar | 55 | Sputum | Pulmonary | Neg | C |
Percy1077 | French (12) | Bégin | M | 2011 Jul | 48 | Esophagus biopsy | Esophagus | Pos (UNK) | A |
Percy1078 | French (13) | Bouffard | F | 2011 Sep | 3 | LN puncture | LN | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1079 | French (13) | Bouffard | M | 2011 Sep | 1 | LN biopsy | LN | Neg | A |
Percy1084 | French(3) | Bouffard | M | 2011 Oct | 4 | LN puncture | LN | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1085 | French (24) | Lyon | F | 2011 Aug | 8 | LN biopsy | LN | UNK | A |
Percy1086 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2012 Jan | 51 | Pericardium biopsy | Diffuse | Pos (52) | A |
Percy1101 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | F | 2011 May | 26 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | C‡ |
Percy1105 | French (15) | Bouffard | M | 2012 Oct | 44 | GF | Pulmonary | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1115 | French (4) | Bouffard | M | 2012 Dec | 3 | LN biopsy | LN | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1116 | French (5) | Bouffard | M | 2012 Dec | 12 | LN puncture | LN | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1129 | French (42) | Bouffard | F | 2013 Jan | 11 | LN puncture | LN | Neg | A‡ |
Percy1130 | Djiboutian | Bouffard | M | 2013 Mar | 35 | GF | Pulmonary | Pos (122) | A‡ |
*TB, tuberculosis; GF, gastric fluid; LN, lymph node; Diffuse, pulmonary and extrapulmonary; Pos, positive; Neg, negative; UNK, unknown.
†Age at isolation date.
‡Ten of the 17 strains selected for draft genome sequencing.
§A second isolate, Percy1050, recovered from a lymph node biopsy specimen, showed the same multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis genotype.