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Table 1 Summary of random effects (RE) meta-analyses of relative risk (RR) of transmission chains associated with MTBC lineages

From: Global variation in bacterial strains that cause tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lineage number

Lineage name

RR

p value (RR)

CI, lower

CI, upper

Q

p value (Q)

I2 (%)

Number of studies

4

Euro-American

1.00

       

1

Indo-Oceanic

1.07

0.61

0.83

1.37

228.3

0.00

95.4

17

2

East Asian

1.24

0.01

1.07

1.45

220.6

0.00

97.8

20

3

East African-Indian

0.98

0.84

0.81

1.18

130.6

0.00

84.9

17

5, 6

West African

0.61

0.01

0.43

0.86

39.4

0.00

95.0

8

–

Animal

0.79

0.02

0.64

0.96

7.43

0.28

18.0

7

–

Unknown

0.56

0.00

0.40

0.79

70.5

0.00

92.0

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