Figure 1.

Spoligotyping, IS6110 RFLP and MIRU-VNTR patterns of M. tuberculosis (MTb) and M. bovis strains isolated from HIV-infected patients. The dendrogram is based on spoligotyping patterns. A) Spoligotyping patterns (binary representation); B) Shared-type (ST) number; C) IS6110-RFLP patterns; D) RFLP cluster; E)12 MIRU-VNTR patterns; F) Strain code. ?, new patterns of spoligotypes; ?^a, Spoligotype octal 777577777720771, ?^b, Spoligotype octal 777743677760771, ?^c, Spoligotype octal 777747677760771, ?^d, Spoligotype octal 777777705720771, ?^e, Spoligotype octal 777777705720661, ?^f, Spoligotype octal 677767604760621, ?^g, Spoligotype octal 677777477413661, ?^h, Spoligotype octal 777777660000131, ?ⁱ, Spoligotype octal 264063776776600, ?^j, Spoligotype octal 677767777777600, ?^k, Spoligotype octal 775346770000000; ●, M. tuberculosis strains with zero-copy-numbers of IS6110; H37Rv, M. tuberculosis H37Rv; BGC, M. bovis BCG; ♦, M. bovis strains. *, Reference strains used as controls. ■, INH-resistant MTb strains