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Table 3 Description of 45 orphan strains (N = 57) and corresponding spoligotyping defined lineages/sublineages recorded among M. tuberculosis strains starting from a total of 281 M. tuberculosis isolated in central Ethiopia

From: Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolated from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in central Ethiopia

  1. Of the 90 spolygtype pattern, 45 patters consisting of 57 isolates did not match with the patterns available in the database (orphans)
  2. *CBN: conformal Bayesian network; EA EuroAmerican; IO Indo-Oceanic; EAI East African-Indian; MA M. africanum