Spoligotype Variation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Prevailing in Korea

Table 2

Spoligoprofiles of the Beijing and T families in Korea from 1990s to 2000s.

Subfamilies	SIT no.	1990s (1994, 1998)		2000s (2003–2006)		value
		No. of strains	%	No. of strains	%
Beijing	1	337	60.2	311	62.8	0.3776
Beijing	190	17	3.0	20	4.0	0.3760
Beijing-like	269	18	3.2	34	6.9	0.0062
Beijing-like	406	3	0.5	6	1.2	—
Beijing	255, 265, 541, 621, 796, 1168, 1311, 1364, 2610	11	2.0	10	2.1	—
T	102	2	0.4	5	1.0
T1	53	73	13.0	40	8.1	0.0094
T2	52	18	3.2	12	2.4	0.4410
T3-OSA	627	6	1.1	3	0.6	—
T, T1, T2, T3, T5, ambiguous: T3 T2	7, 37, 44, 51, 73, 78, 167, 172, 240, 285, 291, 393, 395, 444, 498, 516, 804, 853, 875, 888, 956, 966, 1214, 1223, 1252, 1597, 1622, 1916, 2538, 2867, 3254, 3283	29	5.2	21	4.2	—
Total		514	91.8	462	93.3

Tested by Pearson’s chi-squared test, .