A systematic review of East African-Indian family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil

• Author(s): Duarte, Tonya Azevedo ; Nery, Joilda Silva ; Boechat, Neio ; Pereira, Susan Martins ; Simonsen, Vera ; Oliveira, Martha ; Gomes, Maria Gabriela Miranda ; Penha-Gonçalves, Carlos ; Barreto, Mauricio Lima ; Barbosa, Theolis
• Date: 2017
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/851
• Origin: ARCA - Access to Research and Communication Annals
• Subject(s): DNA, Bacterial; Genotyping; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Phylogeography; Epidemiology
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): ARCA

Description

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis East African-Indian (EAI) spoligotyping family (belonging to lineage 1, Indo-Oceanic, defined by the region of deletion RD239) is distributed worldwide, but is more prevalent in Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa. Studies in Latin America have rarely identified EAI. In this study, we describe the occurrence of the EAI family in Brazil.