Fig. 3.

‘Birds eye’ overview of lineage-specific tuberculosis cases and likely local M. tuberculosis transmission∗ observed in New South Wales, Australia, over the 5-year study period (2017–2021). Single dots within each lineage circle represents one sequenced M. tuberculosis isolate (TB patient). The varying density of dots reflects variation in the number of lineage specific TB cases (Table S4). For clustered cases the size of the cluster is explained in the legend with large clusters representing ≥5 cases/isolates and small clusters <5 cases/isolates. ∗Assessment of M. tuberculosis transmission clustering using a 5 SNPs cluster cut-off. SNP: single nucleotide polymorphism; TB: tuberculosis.