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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2009, p. 994-1001, Vol. 47, No. 4
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01216-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Use of Spoligotyping and Large Sequence Polymorphisms To Study the Population Structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in a Cohort Study of Consecutive Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Cases in The Gambia ^,

Bouke C. de Jong,^1,2* Martin Antonio,¹ Timothy Awine,¹ Kunle Ogungbemi,¹ Ype P. de Jong,¹ Sebastien Gagneux,³ Kathryn DeRiemer,⁴ Thierry Zozio,⁵ Nalin Rastogi,⁵ Martien Borgdorff,^6,7 Philip C. Hill,¹ and Richard A. Adegbola¹

Bacterial Diseases Programme, MRC Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia,¹ New York University, New York, New York,² MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom,³ School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California,⁴ Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe,⁵ University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,⁶ KNCV, The Hague, The Netherlands⁷

Received 26 June 2008/ Returned for modification 10 December 2008/ Accepted 12 January 2009

Mycobacterium africanum, first described in Senegal in 1968, causes up to half of the smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases in West Africa, but it has not been found in other geographical areas except among recent West African migrants. The reasons for the geographic restriction of M. africanum are unknown. We used molecular tools to determine the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a cohort study of consecutive smear-positive tuberculosis cases in The Gambia. We collected and genotyped 386 clinical isolates using spoligotype analysis and PCRs for large sequence polymorphisms (LSPs) and compared the genotype patterns to the patterns in an international database. The results of spoligotyping and LSP analysis for the study population were also compared to determine the correlation between them. The main lineages within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex identified in The Gambia included M. africanum type I (38.4%), characterized by an LSP in region of difference 702 (RD702; West African type 2). Among the M. tuberculosis sensu stricto isolates, lineages characterized by RD182 and by RD174 were the most common. We also detected a gradient in the prevalence of M. africanum that extended from neighboring Guinea-Bissau. The genotypic diversity of the spoligotype patterns was greater among the isolates of M. africanum than among the isolates of M. tuberculosis. We postulate that M. africanum became endemic in West Africa first, before the introduction of different lineages within M. tuberculosis sensu stricto.

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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: MRC Laboratories, P.O. Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia. Phone: 220-4495442, ext. 3023. Fax: 220-4495919. E-mail: bdejong{at}mrc.gm

Published ahead of print on 4 February 2009.

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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2009, p. 994-1001, Vol. 47, No. 4
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01216-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.