Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review
Emilyn Costa Conceição, Richard Steiner Salvato, Karen Machado Gomes, Arthur Emil dos Santos Guimarães, Marília Lima da Conceição, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Abhinav Sharma, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Regina Bones Barcellos, Valdes Roberto Bóllela, Lívia Maria Pala Anselmo, María Carolina Sisco, Cristina Viana-Niero, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Guislaine Refrégier, Maria Cristina da Silva Lourenço, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Artemir Coelho de Brito, Marcos Catanho, Rafael Silva Duarte, Philip Noël Suffys, Karla Valéria Batista Lima
Abstract
Molecular-typing can help in unraveling epidemiological scenarios and improvement for disease control strategies. A literature review of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Brazil through genotyping on 56 studies published from 1996-2019 was performed. The clustering rate for mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) of 1,613 isolates were: 73%, 33% and 28% based on 12, 15 and 24-loci, respectively; while for RFLP-IS6110 were: 84% among prison population in Rio de Janeiro, 69% among multidrug-resistant isolates in Rio Grande do Sul, and 56.2% in general population in São Paulo. These findings could improve tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and set up a solid basis to build a database of Mycobacterium genomes.