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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Research

Simplified Model to Survey Tuberculosis Transmission in Countries Without Systematic Molecular Epidemiology Programs

Juan Domínguez1, Fermín Acosta1, Laura Pérez-Lago, Dilcia Sambrano, Victoria Batista, Carolina De La Guardia, Estefanía Abascal, Álvaro Chiner-Oms, Iñaki Comas, Prudencio González, Jaime Bravo, Pedro Del Cid, Samantha Rosas, Patricia Muñoz, Amador Goodridge2Comments to Author , and Darío García de Viedma2
Author affiliations: Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, City of Knowledge, Panama (J. Domínguez, F. Acosta, D. Sambrano, V. Batista, C. De La Guardia, A. Goodridge); Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama (J. Domínguez, P. González, J. Bravo, P. Del Cid, S. Rosas); Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain (F. Acosta, L. Pérez-Lago, E. Abascal, P. Muñoz, D. García de Viedma); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain (F. Acosta, L. Pérez-Lago, E. Abascal, P. Muñoz, D. García de Viedma); Centro Superior de investigación en Salud Pública (FISABIO)–Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain (Á. Chiner-Oms); Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valencia (I. Comas); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid (I. Comas); Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (P. Muñoz); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid (P. Muñoz, D. García de Viedma)

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Table

Study population, drug resistance, and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Colon and Panama provinces, Panama, 2015

Characteristic Result*
Province
Panama, n = 80 80 (85)
Colon, n = 14
 14 (15)
Antimicrobial drug susceptibility
Susceptible 84 (89.4)
Monoresistant 6 (6.4)
Isoniazid 2 (2.1)
Rifampin 4 (4.3)
Multidrug-resistant 1 (1.1)
No data
 3 (3.2)
Lineage/sublineage
Lineage 1 3
East African Indian 3
Lineage 2 7
Beijing 7
Lineage 4 82
Latin American–Mediterranean 31
Haarlem 28
H37Rv-like 18
Cameroon 3
X 2
Lineage 5 1
West_African_1 1
Lineage 6 1
West_African_2 1
Distribution of clustered isolates
Cluster A (Beijing) 7 (15)
Cluster B (Haarlem)† 14 (30)
Cluster C, Latin American–Mediterranean† 9 (19)
Cluster D (H37Rv-like) 12 (26)
Cluster E, Latin American–Mediterranean† 3 (6)
Cluster F (H37Rv-like) 2 (4)

*Values are no. (%) isolates or % isolates.
†One strain of this cluster was monoresistant to rifampin.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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