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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Dispatch

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains, Tunisia, 2012–2016

Imen BouzouitaComments to Author , Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Alberto Trovato, Henda Daroui, Asma Ghariani, Basma Midouni, Leila Essalah, Emna Mehiri, Daniela Maria Cirillo, and Leila Slim Saidi
Author affiliations: National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Ariana, Tunisia (I. Bouzouita, H. Daroui, A. Ghariani, B. Midouni, L. Essalah, E. Mehiri, L. Slim Saidi); University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia (I. Bouzouita, B. Midouni); San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy (A.M. Cabibbe, A. Trovato, D.M. Cirillo); University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia (A. Ghariani, E. Mehiri, L. Slim Saidi)

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Figure 1

Lineage and family distribution of drug-resistant strains identified during study of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tunisia, 2012–2016. A) MDR strains. Haarlem was the most frequently represented family (71.8%) among MDR strains. Among other samples, 21.7% belonged to the LAM family, 4.3% presented other genotypes of the EA lineage, and 2.2% the Uganda genotype. B) Clustered MDR strains. Haarlem was also the most frequent family (90.0%); the rest belonged to the LAM family. C) Nonclu

Figure 1. Lineage and family distribution of drug-resistant strains identified during study of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tunisia, 2012–2016. A) MDR strains. Haarlem was the most frequently represented family (71.8%) among MDR strains. Among other samples, 21.7% belonged to the LAM family, 4.3% presented other genotypes of the EA lineage, and 2.2% the Uganda genotype. B) Clustered MDR strains. Haarlem was also the most frequent family (90.0%); the rest belonged to the LAM family. C) Nonclustered MDR strains. Among nonclustered isolates, LAM was the most frequently represented family (43.7%), followed by Haarlem, which was detected in 37.5% of the strains. EA, European-American lineage; LAM, Latin-American-Mediterranean lineage; MDR, multidrug-resistant.

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