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First case of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis caused by a rare "Beijing-like" genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bogotá, Colombia.

Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Infection, genetics and evolution: journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases (impact factor: 3.22). 03/2010; 10(5):678-81. DOI:10.1016/j.meegid.2010.03.010 pp.678-81
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ABSTRACT This report describes a first case due to a genetically distinct and relatively rare "Beijing-like" strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from a 15 years old female patient who died shortly after the initiation of antituberculous therapy with second-line drugs. Positive cultures obtained from lung, kidney and adrenal glands upon autopsy were identified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex characterized by an identical 15-banded IS6110-RFLP pattern, and were found to be resistant to all the 4 first-line antituberculous drugs tested (rifampin, isoniazid, ethambutol and streptomycin). Spoligotyping followed by comparison with the SITVIT2 database revealed that the isolate belonged to a rare pattern identified as Spoligotype International Type SIT190, which represents only 1.7% of all the Beijing strains worldwide. We present data on its worldwide distribution and present an evolutionary scenario based on available MIRU typing data.

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Keywords

15 years old female patient
 
4 first-line antituberculous drugs
 
adrenal glands
 
antituberculous therapy
 
available MIRU typing data
 
Beijing-like
 
ethambutol
 
first case
 
identical 15-banded IS6110-RFLP pattern
 
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
 
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
 
Positive cultures
 
rare
 
rare pattern
 
rifampin
 
Spoligotype International Type SIT190
 
Spoligotyping