Evaluation of multiple genetic markers for typing drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Poland.
In the present study, 77 drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Poland in 2000 were characterized by the mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing and our novel method based on PCR amplification of DNA regions between IS6110 and 16-bp GC-rich frequent repeats (designated IS6110-Mtb1/Mtb2 PCR). The results were compared with previous data of the more commonly used methods, IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and spoligotyping. The discriminatory power of IS6110-Mtb1/Mtb2 method was only slightly lower than that of IS6110 RFLP, whereas MIRU-VNTR typing was the least discriminative among the 4 methods used. Clustering of strains by using results of IS6110-Mtb1/Mtb2 PCR correlated well with RFLP-defined clusters, further confirming epidemiologic relationships among patients. These results indicate that the novel genotyping method could be an attractive alternative for other PCR-based typing procedures, such as spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing. Also, it seems to be a valuable adjunct to the reference IS6110 RFLP method for studying the genetic diversity of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains in Poland.
Department of Genetics of Microorganisms, University of Łódz, Łódz 90-237, Poland.
Anna
A
Sajduda
Jarosław
J
Dziadek
Roman
R
Kotłowski
Françoise
F
Portaels
D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005819:Genetic Markers