Research Article

Mycobacterial Lineages Associated with Drug Resistance in Patients with Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 1

Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) lineages and families among extrapulmonary TB isolates ().

Lineages (L)SublineagesFrequencyPercent

Euro-American (L4)11173.5%
T4731.1%
T3-ETH3321.9%
Haarlem159.9%
X110.7%
LAM64.0%
Ural64.0%
East-African-Indian (L3)CAS2617.2%
Indo-Oceanic (L1)EAI510.7%
East-Asian (L2)Beijing10.7%
BovisBOV32.0%
Unknown strainNot defined95.3%

EAI: East-African-Indian; IO: Indo-Oceanic; EAI: East-African-Indian; CAS: Central Asian Strain; H: Harlem; BOV: Bovis; LAM: Latin American Mediterranean; ETH: Ethiopia; L: lineages.