Stability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Patterns and Spoligotypes Determined by Analyzing Serial Isolates from Patients with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
AUTOR(ES)
Niemann, Stefan
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The stability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis IS6110 fingerprint patterns and spoligotypes has been assessed by analyzing serial isolates from patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis. Altogether, 165 M. tuberculosis isolates obtained from 56 patients have been analyzed. The time spans between the first and the last or a changed isolate from one patient ranged from 1 to 772 days. Among the 56 patients, 5 (9%) were infected with isolates with changes in their IS6110 fingerprint patterns. According to the total number of strains analyzed, 5% of the subsequent isolates showed variations in their IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns compared to the pattern of the first isolates. Up to 10 isolates from one patient sampled at time intervals of up to 772 days with no changes in their IS6110 patterns have been analyzed. A statistically significant correlation could be found between changes in insertion sequence (IS) patterns and the increased time intervals over which the isolates were obtained, whereas changes in IS patterns are not correlated to changes in the drug resistance of the isolates. In contrast to the observed variations in IS6110 fingerprint patterns, no changes in the spoligotypes of the isolates analyzed could be found. In conclusion, our results confirm that the IS6110 fingerprint patterns of M. tuberculosis isolates have high degrees of stability. Compared to IS6110, the direct repeat (DR) region, which is the basis for spoligotyping, has a lower rate of change. Partial deletions, e.g., deletions induced by homologous recombination between the repetitive DR elements, could not be detected in this study.
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