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. 2012 May 23;7(5):e37956. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037956

Table 2. Association between Three M. tuberculosis Strain Lineages and Isoniazid-Resistance Conferring Mutations.

East-Asian Lineage Euro-American Indo-Oceanic Other lineages Odds Ratio P-value
Mutation, n (%) (n = 17) (n = 44) (n = 36) (n = 4) (95% CI)a
(1) katG other than S315T 6 (35.3) 8 (18.2) 5 (13.9) 0 (0) 2.98 (0.94–9.48) 0.064
(2) katG S315T 4 (23.5) 18 (40.9) 14 (38.9) 2 (50.0) 1.28 (0.57–2.88) 0.55
(3) inhA-15;c-t promoter 4 (23.5) 9 (20.5) 14 (38.9) 2 (50.0) 2.12 (0.88–5.14) 0.096
(4) Other or none identified 3 (17.6) 9 (20.5) 3 (8.3) 0 (0) 2.19 (0.71–6.69) 0.171
a

For each lineage, logistic regression was used to compare the proportion of the most frequent mutation to its proportion in the other lineages combined.