Association between Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage and time to sputum culture conversion
Association between Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage and time to sputum culture conversion
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DOI:
10.5588/ijtld.12.0732
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发表时间:
2013-07-01
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
Mac Kenzie, W. R.
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作者:
Click, E. S.;Winston, C. A.;Mac Kenzie, W. R.
SETTING: Mycobacterium tuberculosis comprises four principal genetic lineages: one evolutionarily ancestral (Indo-Oceanic) and three modern. Whether response to tuberculosis (TB) treatment differs among the lineages is unknown.OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between M. tuberculosis lineage and time to sputum culture conversion in response to standard first-line drug therapy.DESIGN: We conducted an exploratory retrospective cohort analysis of time to sputum culture conversion among pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases reported in the United States from 2004 to 2007.RESULTS: The analysis included 13 170 PTB cases with no documented resistance to first-line drugs who received a standard four-drug treatment regimen. Among cases with baseline positive sputum smear results, relative to cases with Euro-American lineage, cases with Indo-Oceanic lineage had higher adjusted hazards of sputum culture conversion (aHR 1.32, 95% CI 1.20-1.45), whereas cases with East-African-Indian or East-Asian lineage did not differ (aHR 1.05, 95 % CI 0.88-1.25 and aHR 0.99, 95% CI 0.91-1.07, respectively). Among cases with baseline negative sputum smear results, time to sputum culture conversion did not differ by lineage.CONCLUSION: Although these results are exploratory, they suggest that the eradication of viable bacteria may occur sooner among cases with Indo-Oceanic lineage than among those with one of the three modern lineages. Prospective studies of time to sputum culture conversion by lineage are required.