title: Predominant tuberculosis spoligotypes, Delhi, India.
abstract: One hundred five Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from the Delhi area were typed by spoligotyping; 45 patterns were identified. Comparison with an international spoligotype database showed type 26, Delhi type (22%), type 54 (12%), and type 1, Beijing type (8%), as the most common. Eighteen spoligotypes did not match any existing database pattern.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. urvashi00@hotmaiol.com
authors.forename: Urvashi Balbir
authors.initials: UB
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Naga
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suresh
authors.forename: N Vijaya
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Bhanu
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Hema
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pant
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Ram Charan
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: Sushma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Jitendra Nath
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Pande
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sola
authors.forename: Nalin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rastogi
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Seth
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial