Table 2.
Cattle identification, sample types and 24-locus variable number of tandem repeat profiles of M. tuberculosis strains isolated in the Eastern Province of South Africa
| Locus name | MIRU 04 | MIRU 26 | MIRU 40 | MIRU 10 | MIRU 16 | MIRU 31 | VNTR 42 | VNTR 43 | ETR A | VNTR 47 | VNTR 52 | VNTR 53 | QUB 11b | VNTR 1955 | QUB 26 | MIRU 02 | MIRU 23 | MIRU 39 | MIRU 20 | MIRU 24 | MIRU 27 | VNTR 46 | VNTR 48 | VNTR 49 | Animal ID | Sample type | Farm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copy number | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | n/a | 2 | 4 | n/a | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | n/a | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 25545 (TB 7000) |
Lung | Farm 1 |
| 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | n/a | 2 | 6 | 2 | n/a | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 84750367 (TB 7046A) |
Prescapsular LN | Farm 2 |
n/a not available (PCR was not successful), LN Lymph node