Table 3. Allele copy number of MIRU-VNTR markers in LAM9C1 and LAM9C2 M. tuberculosis isolates.

LAM9 sublineages	Tandem repeat copy number	Number of Patients strains by MIRU-VNTR locus
		2	4	10	16	20	23	24	26	27	31	39	40
LAM9C1	ND	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	119
	1	213	2	2	0	7	0	226	1	2	4	1	1
	2	12	216	2	18	218	5		6	0	172	222	22
	3	1	5	21	207	1	1		29	217	49	2	1
	4			189	1		1		22	4	0		18
	5			12			7		164	3	0		19
	6			0			192		4				39
	7						18		0				6
	8						2		0				0
	9												1
LAM9C2	ND	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	1	1	1	0	33	18	0	208	0	2	0	7	179
	2	200	202	14	123	188	2		7	35	24	197	1
	3	7	5	42	47	0	13		25	165	176	4	23
	4			135	3		2		40	4	5		3
	5			15			24		114	2	3		0
	6			1			156		18				0
	7						8		2				0
	8						1		2				0
	9												0

ND: Not done