Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Spoligotypes and Drug-Resistant Characterization from Beira Compared to Genotypes Circulating in Mozambique

INTRODUCTION:Mozambique is one of three countries with high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), TB/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection, and multidrug-resistant TB. We aimed to describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes circulating among drug resistant (DR) strains from Beira, Mozambique comparing them with genotypes in the country.METHODS:We performed spoligotyping of 79 M. tuberculosis suspected of DR-TB compared all spoligotype patterns published on the international database and PubMed.RESULTS:Both in Beira and Mozambique (n=578), the main clades were Latin-American-Mediterranean, East-African-Indian, Beijing and T, with no extensively DR TB cases.CONCLUSIONS:Beira and Mozambique share the same population genetic structure of M. tuberculosis.