A database for animal tuberculosis (mycoDB.es) within the context of the Spanish national programme for eradication of bovine tuberculosis
June 1st, 2012
Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases publish this investigation article
Spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) analysis are the international standard techniques for molecular typing of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. To enable the exploitation of molecular typing data for epidemiological purposes, the creation of large databases is indispensable. Here we describe mycoDB.es, a database for animal tuberculosis which forms part of the Spanish national programme for eradication of bovine tuberculosis. This database has been created as an epidemiological tool at national level and contains spoligotype patterns of 17273 isolates clustered in 401 different spoligotypes of M. bovis, M. caprae and M. tuberculosis. The database offers an overview of the present spoligotypes, to a lower extent also of MIRU-VNTRtypes, affected animal species and furthermore of the spatial distribution of these genotypes
Rodriguez-Campos S., Gonzalez S., de Juan L., Romero B., Bezos J., Casal C., Alvarez J., Fernandez de Mera IG., Castellanos E., Mateos A., Saez JL., Dominguez L., Aranaz A. and The Spanish Network on Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis.
