FIG. 1.

Multialignment sequences identified in the rpoB region of 35 strains of 26 mycobacterial species of clinical importance. The software used for the alignment of multiple sequences was obtained from reference 2. Sequences with high consensus are shown as red letters, low consensus as blue letters, and neutral consensus as black letters. Among the 360-bp sequences identified in this study, only the 216-bp region of the upstream sequences is shown, since the downstream sequences have been reported elsewhere. The sequences shown here have been submitted to GenBank.