Microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tuberculosis patient

J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Oct;48(10):3813-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00556-10. Epub 2010 Aug 4.

Abstract

Five Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were obtained from three body sites from a Dutch patient. The isolates displayed a single genotype by 24-locus MIRU-VNTR typing (except for a single locus not amplified from one isolate) but were differentiated by small variations in IS6110 fingerprints, spoligotypes, 6 hypervariable MIRU-VNTR loci, and/or DiversiLab profiles, revealing patterns of microevolution in a clonal infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bacterial Typing Techniques*
  • Cluster Analysis
  • DNA Fingerprinting*
  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Evolution, Molecular*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / classification*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Netherlands
  • Tuberculosis / microbiology*

Substances

  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • DNA, Bacterial