Association between M. tuberculosis lineage and disease presentation based on population group.

Abbreviations: aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; TB, tuberculosis; MDR-TB, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; –unable to calculated.*Individuals born outside of the Western Pacific, including Canadian-born Aboriginals and Canadian-born non-Aboriginals.†Independent of sex and age at diagnosis; non-Beijing strains are the reference group.‡Of respiratory cases, 440 cases among those born in the Western Pacific and 860 cases among those born elsewhere had smear microscopy data.§p = 0.057.**p = 0.069.††Sputum smear positive specimens were collected for 88 foreign-born Western Pacific and 233 ‘Other’ respiratory TB cases.‡‡p = 0.062.