TABLE 1.

VNTR profiles of M. ulcerans and M. marinum

Species	Isolatesa	Origin	VNTR allelic profile (by locus no.)									VNTR/MLST/IS2404-RFLPb type	MIRUc-VNTR type
			1	4	6	8	9	14	15	18	19
M. ulcerans	ITM 94-1324	Australia	1	2	1	3	3	1	1	1	2	Southeast Asian	Asian
	ITM 94-1328	Malaysia	1	2	1	3	3	1	1	1	2	Southeast Asian	Asian
	ITM 94-1331	Papua New Guinea	1	2	1	3	3	1	1	1	2	Southeast Asian	Asian
	ITM 98-912	China	1	2	2	3	4	3	1	2	4	Asian	Asian
	ITM 8756	Japan	1	2	2	3	4	3	1	2	4	Asian	Asian
	ITM 97-658	Angola	1	1	1	3	2	1	1	1	2	African	African
	ITM 97-104	Benin	1	1	1	3	2	1	1	1	2	African	African
	Sequence strain	Ghana	1	1	1	3	2	1	1	1	2	African	African
	ITM 842	Surinam	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	3
M. marinum	Sequence strain		5	4	5	2	3	4	3	2	9

^aThe profile of the Surinam type was included to indicate polymorphism, at loci 1, 8, and 15. ITM, Institute of Tropical Medicine.

^bMLST, multilocus sequence typing (15); RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism (5).

^cMIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (16).