Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
; 116: e200517, 2021. tab, graf
Article
in En
| LILACS
| ID: biblio-1154877
Responsible library:
BR1.1
ABSTRACT
Molecular-typing can help in unraveling epidemiological scenarios and improvement for disease control strategies. A literature review of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Brazil through genotyping on 56 studies published from 1996-2019 was performed. The clustering rate for mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) of 1,613 isolates were 73%, 33% and 28% based on 12, 15 and 24-loci, respectively; while for RFLP-IS6110 were 84% among prison population in Rio de Janeiro, 69% among multidrug-resistant isolates in Rio Grande do Sul, and 56.2% in general population in São Paulo. These findings could improve tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and set up a solid basis to build a database of Mycobacterium genomes.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
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Minisatellite Repeats
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Type of study:
Screening_studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Brasil
Language:
En
Journal:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Journal subject:
MEDICINA TROPICAL
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PARASITOLOGIA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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France
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India
Country of publication:
Brazil