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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 193, Issue 3, Pages 670-678Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00750-10
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- Wellcome Trust Livestock for Life and Animal Health in the Developing World initiatives
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
- Damien Foundation (Belgium)
- South African Medical Research Council
- National Research Foundation
- MacArthur Foundation/University of Ibadan
- European Union
- Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
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We have identified a clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis isolated at high frequency from cattle in Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. We have named this related group of M. bovis strains the African 2 (Af2) clonal complex of M. bovis. Af2 strains are defined by a specific chromosomal deletion (RDAf2) and can be identified by the absence of spacers 3 to 7 in their spoligotype patterns. Deletion analysis of M. bovis isolates from Algeria, Mali, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, and Mozambique did not identify any strains of the Af2 clonal complex, suggesting that this clonal complex of M. bovis is localized in East Africa. The specific spoligotype pattern of the Af2 clonal complex was rarely identified among isolates from outside Africa, and the few isolates that were found and tested were intact at the RDAf2 locus. We conclude that the Af2 clonal complex is localized to cattle in East Africa. We found that strains of the Af2 clonal complex of M. bovis have, in general, four or more copies of the insertion sequence IS6110, in contrast to the majority of M. bovis strains isolated from cattle, which are thought to carry only one or a few copies.
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