Description of shared types found in this study.

aIn the SITVITWEB database, the spoligo (shared) international type (SIT) numbers designate spoligotypes shared by two or more patient isolates.*SIT3434 is a newly created shared type due to two strains belonging to a new pattern within this study.bClade designations according to the SITVITWEB database: Beijing clade, East African-Indian (EAI) clade and 9 sublineages, Haarlem (H) clade and 3 sublineages, Latin American-Mediterranean (LAM) clade and 12 sublineages, the ancestral “Manu” family and 3 sublineages, the S clade, the IS6110-low-banding X clade and 3 sublineages, and an ill-defined T clade with 5 sublineages. Unk, unknown patterns within any of the major clades described in the database.Description of shared types found in this study.