TABLE 4.
Published molecular epidemiological studies using the Pasteur Institute's International MLST database of Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary isolates from different countries
| Year, country | No. of isolates (patients) | Cystic fibrosis % | MAB-a % | MAB-b % | MAB-m % | Dominant STs % | Novel STs % | Singleton STs % |
| 1998–2010, Scotland [35] | 178 (12) | 83 | 38 | 16 | 46 | ST23 (42) | 50 | 67 |
| 2004–2012, Ireland [30] | 36 (36) | 50 | 78 | 0 | 22 | ST1 (19) ST26 (14) ST126 (8) ST22 (6) ST23 (6) |
19 | 47 |
| 2013–2014, China [39] | 55 (55) | 0 | 76 | 4 | 20 | ST1 (9) ST23 (9) ST117 (4) ST48. (2) |
58 | NA |
| 2010–2017 Taiwan (present study) | 371 (371) | 0 | 49 | 1 | 50 | ST1 (24) ST48 (16) ST117 (15) ST23 (9) |
16 | 13 |
MLST: multilocus sequence typing; MAB-a: M. abscessus subsp. abscessus; MAB-b: M. abscessus subsp. bolletii; MAB-m: M. abscessus subsp. massiliense; ST: sequence type; NA: not available.