TABLE 1.
Countries in which the Western Cape genotype F11 was found in the RFLP international database
| Continent (countries)a | No. of IS6110 DNA fingerprints available for comparison | No. (%) of isolates matching with F11 |
|---|---|---|
| Asia (China [300], India [154], Indonesia [93], Iran [98], Israel [14], Malaysia [2], Mongolia [23], Philippines [46], South Korea [14], Thailand [64], United Arab Emirates [8], Vietnam [424]), | 1,232 | 0 (0.0) |
| Europe (Austria [161, 1], Czech Republic [198, 1], Germany [348, 2], Denmark [729, 13], Italy [760, 17], The Netherlandsb [9998, 245], Russia [5], Spain [78, 10], Switzerland [17], United Kingdom [110, 2]) | 12,404 | 291 (2.3) |
| North Africa (Tunisia [228, 8], Ethiopia [184], Morocco [8]) | 420 | 8 (1.9) |
| Central Africa (Tanzania [131, 1], Burundi [1], Comoros [3], Guinea [5], Rwanda [58]) | 198 | 1 (0.5) |
| Southern Africa (Zambia [188, 8], South Africac [1,203, 229]) | 1,391 | 237 (17.0) |
| North America (United States [8, 1], Canada [40, 2], Honduras [11, 2], Cuba [185, 14]) | 244 | 19 (7.8) |
| South America (Chile [3, 2], Argentina [45, 3], Venuzuela [19, 3], Brazil [80, 4], Bolivia [55, 5], Colombia [1], Equador [3], Peru [1]) | 207 | 17 (8.2) |
| Total | 16,096 | 573 |
a
The number of IS6110 RFLP patterns available in the international database and the number of isolates with an F11 RFLP pattern found is indicated in brackets.
b
Patterns in the Dutch database.
c
Patterns in the South Africa and international database.