Review Article

Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan: A Model for Strain Evolution Linked to Population Migration

Table 2

Association between MTB genotype and drug resistance in patientse.

Genotype familyNo. of isolates (%)MDR (%)Any one drug (%)All sensitivity (%)

Beijinga187 (52.5)8(4.2)36 (19.4)143 (76.4)
Haarlem48 (13.5)09 (18.8)39 (81.2)
EAIb40 (11.2)03 (7.5)37 (92.5)
T25 (7.1)08 (32.0)17 (68.0)
“Others’’c (LAM, U, MANU, Bovis1)16 (4.5)01 (6.3)15 (93.7)
Unclassifiedd40 (11.2)2 (5)8 (20)30 (75)

Total35610 (2.8)65 (18.2)281 (79)

aIncluding Beijing-like strains.
bIncluding EAI-like strains.
c“Others’’, all genotype families with a frequency of less than 10 cases.
dUnclassified, no internationally recognized genotype family assigned, based on the SpolDB4 spoligotype database.
eAdapted from [1].