TABLE 1.

B. lusitaniae from Maghrebin countries used in this work and the targets studied for each isolate^a

Isolate	rrf-rrl spacerb	PFGE	ospC	ospAb
Tunisian isolates
TD 12	AY575748	X	X
TT 4	AY575747	X	X
TT 13	AY575749	X
TT 214	AY575755	X
TT 266	AY575756		X
TT 328		X
TT 39	AY575750		X
TT 40	AY575751		X
TT 840	AY575758	X	X	AJ634238
TT 85	AY575754		X
TT 867	AY575759	X	X	AJ634239
TT 892			X
TT 894	AY575760	X	X
TT 899		X	X
TT 908	AY575761	X	X	AJ634240
TT 916	AY575762	X	X	AJ634241
TT 917			X
TT 918	AY575763	X	X
TT 919		X	X
TT 920	AY575764	X	X
TT 925	AY575765	X		AJ634242
TT 927	AY575766	X
TT 928	AY575767	X		AJ634243
TT57	AY575753
TT55	AY575752
TT832	AY575757
Moroccan isolates
MT1	AY575720	X
MT2	AY575721		X	AJ634228
MT4	AY575722	X	X	AJ634229
MT6	AY575723
MT7	AY575724	X		AJ634230
MT8	AY575725	X	X	AJ634231
MT9		X	X	AJ634232
MT10	AY575726	X	X	AJ634233
MT11	AY575727	X	X
MT12	AY575728	X	X	AJ634234
MT13		X	X
MT14	AY575729		X
MT16	AY575730	X	X	AJ634235
MT17	AY575731		X
MT18	AY575732	X
MT20	AY575733	X	X
MT22	AY575734	X	X
MT23				AJ634236
MT24	AY575735	X	X
MT25	AY575736	X
MT26	AY575737		X	AJ634237
MT27	AY575738	X	X
MN2-6	AY575741
MN2-29	AY575744
MN2-32	AY575740
M3-3	AY575745
M3-4	AY575746
M3-22	AY575742
MA3-13	AY575739
MA3-45	AY575743

^aOnly isolates maintained in pure culture were analyzed by PFGE. For other isolates, only DNA was available.

^bAccession numbers for the sequences analyzed in this study.