Wang Jun,Huang Yanfeng,Zhang Aihua,Xu Hongmei.Genotyping of 101 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pediatrics tuberculosis in Chongqing by multiple locus VNTR analysis[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2011,33(13):1408-1410.
Wang Jun,Huang Yanfeng,Zhang Aihua,Xu Hongmei.Genotyping of 101 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pediatrics tuberculosis in Chongqing by multiple locus VNTR analysis[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2011,33(13):1408-1410.DOI:
Objective To study the distribution of the variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) in clinically isolated strains Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) from pediatrics tuberculosis in Chongqing and explore the effective loci combination of them by multiple locus VNTR analysis (MLVA). Methods Twenty-four standardized MLVA loci was used to type the 101 clinically isolated M. tuberculosis strains
and the results were analyzed by BioNumerics 6.1 software
which including dendrogram and Hunter-Gaston index (HGI) of 24 loci. The HGI of different loci set (12 loci
15 loci
and 24 loci) was evaluated. Results Twenty-four loci showed different polymorphism. All the 101 clinical isolates were typed into one group that displaying 83 genotypes
in which 69 strains (68.32%
69/101) were typed 69 genotypes respectively
and 32 strains (31.68%) were typed 14 genotypes which showed cluster rate of 17.82%. The HGI of 24 loci was from 0.168 to 0.829
the number of VNTR loci with HGI higher than 0.5 was 16. Three loci set displayed different polymorphism. HGI of 12 loci
15 loci
and 24 loci set were 0.995
0.996
and 0.996 respectively. Conclusion The clinical strains of M. tuberculosis isolated from pediatrics tuberculosis in Chongqing show definite polymorphism and the standardization 15 loci VNTR set of MLVA can be used in the molecular epidemiological study of these strains in Chongqing.