“…As reported in the original literature [ 34 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 ], each of the four CGSC lineages (VGI, VGII, VGIII, and VGIV) in the IFMLST database are broadly distributed across multiple continents. However, the four lineages showed different patterns: the VGI lineage was recorded in 30 of the 45 countries with CGSC, followed by VGII (in 25 countries), VGIII lineage (in 11 countries), and VGIV lineage (in 9 countries).…”