Table 1.
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 |
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.