TABLE 1.

ST1 alleles of M. ulcerans and M. marinum disease isolates

Species	Isolate	Country of origin	No. of repeats	Arrangement of the variant repeat DNA sequences
M. ulcerans	ITM 8756	Japan	2	CF
	ITM 980912	China	2	CF
	ITM 941328	Malaysia	2	BD
	ITM 884	Australia	2	BD
	ITM 9357	Papua-New Guinea	2	BD
	ITM 7922	French Guyana	1	C
	ITM 970359a	Ghana	1	C
	ITM 970321	Ghana	2	BD
	ITM 940886	Benin	2	BD
	ITM 940662	Côte d'Ivoire	2	BD
	ITM 960658	Angola	2	BD
M. marinum	894/1995	Switzerland	3	ACE
	853/1995	Switzerland	3	NDc
	8972/1997	Switzerland	3	ND
	946/1997	Switzerland	3	ND
	3023/1998	Switzerland	3	ND
	N119/1998	Switzerland	2	ND
	M. marinumb	Unknown	2	AC

^aIsolated in 1997 from a patient living in the Amansie-West district.

^bIsolate used for the M. marinum genome sequencing project.

^cND, not determined.