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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

Beijing Lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007–2011

Stefan PanaiotovComments to Author , Elizabeta Bachiyska, Stanislava Yordanova, Yuliana Atanasova, Nadia Brankova, Viktoria Levterova, Sarah Sengstake, Richard M. Anthony, Indra Bergval, Christophe Sola, and Todor Kantardjiev
Author affiliations: National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria (S. Panaiotov, E. Bachiyska, S. Yordanova, Y. Atanasova, N. Brankova, V. Levterova, T. Kantardjiev); Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (S. Sengstake, R. Anthony, I. Bergval); University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (C. Sola)

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Table 2

Genotyping characteristics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains identified in Bulgaria, 2007–2011*

Strain Spoligotype pattern SIT 24 MIRU-VNTR† MLPA lineage type‡
BG_07_09 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1 244233352634425153353823 SA+/V+/ CHIN+
BG_35_09 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1 244233352644425173343723 SA+/V+/ CHIN+
BG_104_10 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1 244233352644425153353823 SA+/V+/ CHIN+
BG_85_10 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 265 244233352644425153353823 K1
BG_95_10 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 265 244233352644425153353823 K1
BG_112_11 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1 NA K1
BG_54_11 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1 244233352634425153353823 SA+/V+/ CHIN+

*MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit; NA, not applicable; SIT, Spoligo International Type second to SITVITWEB database classification; VNTR, variable number–tandem repeat.
†24 loci MIRU-VNTR order: 154, 424, 577, 580, 802, 960, 1644, 1955, 2059, 2163b, 2165, 2347, 2401, 2461, 2531, 2687, 2996, 3007, 3171, 3192, 3690, 4052, 4156, 4348.
‡SA+, South Africa; V+, Vietnam; CHIN+, China; K1, Uzbekistan (9,10).

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