Figure 2. Customized map of phylogeographical distribution of major M. tuberculosis lineages in the neighboring countries of Malaysia (data extracted from the updated version of the SITVIT2 database).

One may notice the similarity in the lineages distribution of this study as compared to Malaysian strains previously entered in SITVIT2. Note that the map file was downloaded under Creative Commons License using the link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Blank Map Pacific World.svg and was manually modified for representative purposes only.