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Tuberculosis (TB): national strain typing service

Resources for healthcare professionals about the national TB strain typing service.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 23 January 2014

The national strain typing service involves prospectively typing TB isolates using 24 loci mycobacterial interspersed repeat units - variable number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR). The results of this are used in local or national investigation of suspected TB transmission incidents.

TB strain typing results combined with epidemiological data can:

• help identify TB patients potentially involved in the same chain of recent TB transmission
• assist in initiating timely and appropriate control measures following cluster and outbreak investigations
• provide an opportunity to better understand the epidemiology of TB in a given setting

Using the service

• National TB strain typing service: what we do
  • 1 April 2014
  • Guidance
• National TB strain typing service: factsheet
  • 30 January 2014
  • Guidance
• M. tuberculosis strain typing: data production and distribution
  • 30 August 2012
  • Guidance
• National TB strain typing service: summary report
  • 1 October 2013
  • Guidance

Cluster investigation

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing and cluster investigation
  • 5 September 2022
  • Guidance

Strain typing module

• Enhanced TB surveillance strain typing module: user guide
  • 30 November 2013
  • Guidance

National strain typing service evaluation

• Tuberculosis (TB) strain typing service: evaluation
  • 30 March 2013
  • Guidance

Data analysis

• Tuberculosis (TB) in the UK: annual report data up to 2013
  • 25 September 2014
  • Research and analysis

Published 23 January 2014