Figure 1.
Distribution of rare Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex species in humans (filled circles) and animals (open circles).
Green circles, M. canettii; blue circles, M. caprae; pink circles, M. microti; orange circles, M. pinnipedii.
Figure 2.
Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex species in human tuberculosis cases in Africa.
Based on a review of papers published in 1999–2007 [22], [64]–[70]. For each country, prevalence rates and reference are indicated in cartoons. Mtub, M. tuberculosis; M afr, M. africanum; Mbov, M. bovis; Mcan, M. canettii; MTC, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Table 1.
Origin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex reference strains and clinical isolates analyzed in this study
Table 2.
Biochemical and antibiotic susceptibility profiles observed for M. tuberculosis complex reference strains and clinical isolates in this study
Table 3.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in five housekeeping genes and MPTR sequence analysis in eight MTC reference strains