Description of the main Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages and spoligotyping patterns from Nepal (total number of isolates analyzed: n = 261).

SIT, Spoligotype International Type according to the definitions in the SITVITWEB database (http://www.pasteur-guadeloupe.fr:8081/SITVIT_ONLINE/) accessed on April 2012.1This strain was assigned to Lineage 3 (Delhi/CAS) based on alternative molecular markers, as previously published [31].Lineage 1: Indo-Oceanic Lineage; Lineage 2: East-Asian Lineage (includes Beijing strains); Lineage 3: Delhi/CAS; Lineage 4: Euro-American Lineage.