Table 1. Detailed description of the dataset used (n = 10974 strains).

	CAS (%)	EAI (%)
Database
number of strains	4362	6612
number of countries (isolation)	68	77
number of countries (origin of patients)	52	92
Spoligotyping
Clustered	4102 (94.04)	5919 (89.52)
Unique	260 (5.96)	693 (10.48)
Gender
Male	881 (61.82)	907 (67.69)
Female	544 (38.18)	433 (32.31)
M/F sex ratio	1.62	2.09
Drug resistance
Pansusceptible	832 (57.14)	966 (69.80)
Any resistance (excluding MDR/XDR)	163 (11.20)	246 (17.77)
MDR	446 (30.63)	168 (12.14)
XDR	15 (1.03)	4 (0.29)
HIV status
HIV+	15 (3.46)	36 (20.34)
HIV-	418 (96.54)	141 (79.66)
Age groups
0–20 yrs.	249 (18.07)	87 (10.90)
21–40 yrs.	701 (50.87)	364 (45.61)
41–60 yrs.	302 (21.92)	242 (30.33)
>60 yrs.	126 (9.14)	105 (13.16)