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. 2008 Dec 24;8:171. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-171

Table 2.

Drug resistance patterns of predominant M. tuberculosis shared types as compared with genotype of CAS lineage.

clusters** Sensitive
n(%)a
Drug resistant isolates (n) as a percentage of total isolates in the clades (%)
Rifampicin Isoniazid Streptomycin Ethambutol Pyrazinamide Total

CAS 245 (45) 252 (46) 258 (47) 141 (26) 210 (39) 297 (55) 568


EAI 17 (35) 30 (61) 32 (65) 17 (35) 24 (49) 29 (59) 42
P value 0.08 0.06 0.12 0.13 0.28
Odds ratio 1.71 1.78 1.73 1.64 1.4
95% CI 0.92–3.19 0.96–3.30 0.86–3.51 0.86–3.14 0.75–2.62

Beijing 8 (32) 18 (72) 17 (68) 12 (48) 15 (60) 16 (64) 25
P value 0.071 0.1 0.041* 0.08 0.25
Odds ratio 2.18 2.01 2.6 2.18 1.65
95% CI 0.93–5.12 0.85–4.76 1.04–6.52 0.90–5.26 0.69–3.92

Haarlem 9 (60) 4 (27) 6 (40) Not resistant 4 (27) 5 (33) 15
P value 0.16 0.25 0.67 0.16
Odds ratio 0.43 0.52 0.772 0.45
95% CI 0.13–1.42 0.17–1.59 0.23–2.55 0.15–1.38

T 6 (30) 8 (40) 9 (45) 5 (25) 5 (25) 7 (35) 23
P value 0.63 0.5 0.54 0.96 0.94
Odds ratio 1.29 1.42 1.44 0.97 0.96
95% CI 0.44–3.79 0.5–4.0 0.43–4.8 0.29–3.23 0.31–3.90

LAM 1 (50) 1 (50) 1 (50) 1 (50) 1 (50) 1 (50) 2
P value 0.98 0.97 0.69 0.91 0.89
Odds ratio 0.97 0.95 1.73 1.61 0.82
95% CI 0.06–15.03 0.05–15.26 0.10–27.99 0.07–18.76 0.05–13.25

Other Orphan-Pakb 20 (38) 19 (36) 21 (40) 9 (17) 19 (36) 13 (24) 46
P value 0.93 0.99 0.55 0.75 0.08
Odds ratio 0,97 0.99 0.78 1.1 0.53
95% CI 0.51–1.85 0.52–1.88 0.34–1.76 0.57–2.13 0.26–1.1

Orphan types 96 (47) 106 (52) 137 (67) 130 (63) 177 (86) 129 (63) 205
P value 0.67 0.058 0.001* 0.001* 0.52
Odds ratio 1.03 1.35 2.35 2.15 1.1
95% CI 0.77–1.48 0.99–1.85 1.68–3.29 1.57–2.93 0.81–1.1

aSensitive to first line drugs (Rifampicin, Isoniazid, Streptomycin, Ethambutol and Pyrazinamide)

bIncludes a total of 18 clusters

**Strain genotypes as listed in Fig. 1

* Significant difference compared to CAS genotypes