High incidence of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tertiary care center in Mumbai, India

Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Mar 15;40(6):881-6. doi: 10.1086/427940. Epub 2005 Feb 18.

Abstract

We report a high frequency (35%) of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates recovered in and around Mumbai, India. Further restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing showed that these strains were closely related. We also report a high frequency of the Delhi genotype (31% of isolates). Our data indicate considerable ongoing transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype in Mumbai.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Antitubercular Agents / pharmacology
  • DNA, Intergenic
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • India / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics*
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis / microbiology*

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents
  • DNA, Intergenic