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Snapshot of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phylogenetics from an Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh Bordering China

Version 1 : Received: 16 December 2021 / Approved: 17 December 2021 / Online: 17 December 2021 (08:20:58 CET)

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Mudliar, S.R.; Kulsum, U.; Rufai, S.B.; Umpo, M.; Nyori, M.; Singh, S. Snapshot of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phylogenetics from an Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh Bordering China. Genes 2022, 13, 263. Mudliar, S.R.; Kulsum, U.; Rufai, S.B.; Umpo, M.; Nyori, M.; Singh, S. Snapshot of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phylogenetics from an Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh Bordering China. Genes 2022, 13, 263.

Abstract

Uncontrolled transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis, MTB) drug resistant strains is a challenge to control efforts of global tuberculosis programme. Due to increasing multi-drug resistant (MDR) cases in Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern state of India, the tracking and tracing of these resistant MTB strains is crucial for infection control and spread of drug resistance. This study aims to correlate the phenotypic DST, genomic DST (gDST) and phylogenetic analysis of MDR-MTB strains in the region. Of total 200 suspected MDR-MTB isolates, 125(62.5%) were identified as MTB. MGIT-960 SIRE DST detected 71/125(56.8%) isolates as MDR/RR-MTB of which 22(30.9%) were detected resistant to second line drugs. Whole genome sequencing of 65 isolates and their gDST found Ser315Thr mutation in katG (35/45;77.8%) and Ser531Leu mutation in rpoB (21/41;51.2%) associated with drug resistance. SNP barcoding categorized the dataset with Lineage2 (41;63.1%) being predominant followed by Lineage3 (10;15.4%), Lineage1 (8;12.3%) and Lineage4 (6;9.2%) respectively. Phylogenetic assignment by cgMLST gave insights of two Beijing sub-lineages viz; 2.2.1 (SNP difference < 19) and 2.2.1.2 (SNP difference < 9) associated with recent ongoing transmission in Arunachal Pradesh. This study provides first insight in identifying the ongoing transmission of two virulent Beijing sub-lineages associated with TB drug resistance.

Keywords

DST; MGIT-960; WGS; cgMLST; SNP barcoding; phylogeny

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology

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