Global origin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Midlands, UK

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 542-545

  Evans, Jason T ^a   Gardiner, Sarah ^a   Smith, E Grace ^a   Webber, Richard ^b   Hawkey, Peter M ^a,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77649139442     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090813     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Allix-Beguec C, Fauville-Dufaux M, Supply P. Three-year population-based evaluation of standardized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable- number tandem-repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol. 2008;46:1398-406 10.1128/JCM.02089-07. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02089-07
2. Cowan LS, Diem L, Monson T, Wand P, Temporado D, Oemig TV, et al. Evaluation of a two-step approach for large-scale, prospective genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the United States. J Clin Microbiol. 2005;43:688-95 10.1128/JCM.43.2.688-695.2005. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.688-695.2005
3. Mazars E, Lesjean S, Banuls AL, Gilbert M, Vincent V, Gicquel B, et al. High-resolution minisatellite-based typing as a portable approach to global analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001;98:1901-6 10.1073/pnas.98.4.1901. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.98.4. 1901
4. Fleischmann RD, Alland D, Eisen JA, Carpenter L, White O, Peterson J, et al. Whole-genome comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical and laboratory strains. J Bacteriol. 2002;184:5479-90. DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.19.5479- 5490.2002
5. Sreevatsan S, Pan X, Stockbauer KE, Connell ND, Kreiswirth BN, Whittam TS, et al. Restricted structural gene polymorphism in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex indicates evolutionarily recent global dissemination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997;94:9869-74. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.18.9869
6. van Embden JD, Cave MD, Crawford JT, Dale JW, Eisenach KD, Gicquel B, et al. Strain identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting: recommendations for a standardized methodology. J Clin Microbiol. 1993;31:406-9.
7. Gagneux S, DeRiemer K, Van T, Kato-Maeda M, de Jong BC, Narayanan S, et al. Variable host-pathogen compatibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103:2869-73 10.1073/pnas.0511240103. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0511240103
8. Webber R. Using names to segment customers by cultural, ethnic or religious origin. Journal of Direct Data and Digital Marketing Practice. 2007;8:226-42. DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.dddmp.4350051
9. Leaman AM, Rysdale E, Webber R. Use of the emergency department by Polish migrant workers. Emerg Med J. 2006;23:918-9 10.1136/emj.2006.035980. DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.035980
10. Evans JT, Smith EG, Banerjee A, Smith RM, Dale J, Innes JA, et al. Cluster of human tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis: evidence for person-to-person transmission in the UK. Lancet. 2007;369:1270-6 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60598-4. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60598-4
11. Allix-Beguec C, Harmsen D, Weniger T, Supply P, Niemann S. Evaluation and strategy for use of MIRU-VNTRplus, a multifunctional database for online analysis of genotyping data and phylogenetic identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates. J Clin Microbiol. 2008;46:2692-9 10.1128/JCM.00540-08. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00540-08
12. United Nations Statistics Division. United Nations standard country and area codes classification scheme [cited 2009 Apr 17]. http://unstats.un.org/ unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm
13. Reed MB, Pichler VK, McIntosh F, Mattia A, Fallow A, Masala S, et al. Major Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages associate with patient country of origin. J Clin Microbiol. 2009;47:1119-28 10.1128/ JCM.02142-08. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02142-08