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. 2011 Sep;49(9):3292–3299. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00744-11

Table 1.

Major phylogenetic lineages within human-adapted MTBC membersa

Lineage MTBC species Presence/absence of TbD1 Gagneux's nomenclature (LSP based) PGG (SNP based) SCG (SNP based) Spoligotype-defined families
1 M. tuberculosis Intact Indo-Oceanic lineage 1b 1 EAI
2 M. tuberculosis Deleted East Asian lineage 1b 2 Beijing
3 M. tuberculosis Deleted East African-Indian lineage 1b 3a CAS
4 M. tuberculosis Deleted Euro-American lineage 2, 3 3b, 3c, 4, 5, 6a, 6b H, LAM, X, T, S, others
5 M. africanum Intact West African lineage I 1b Not described AFRI2
6 M. africanum Intact West African lineage II 1a Not described AFRI1
a

TbD1, M. tuberculosis-specific deletion region 1 described by Brosch et al. (8); PGGs are as defined by Sreevatsan et al. (37); SCG subgroups are as defined by Filliol et al. (14) and Alland et al. (2); EAI, East African-Indian family; CAS, Central Asian family; H, Haarlem family; LAM, Latin American-Mediterranean family.