Table 1.
Species identification of 321 isolates which had concordant results by both phenotypic and PRA-hsp65 methods.
| Phenotypic identification | PRA-hsp65b | N (%) |
| M. avium complex (146)a | M. avium 1 | 107 (33.5) |
| M. avium 2 | 24 (7.5) | |
| M. avium 3 | 1 (0.3) | |
| M. intracellulare 1 | 13 (4.1) | |
| M. intracellulare 4 | 1 (0.3) | |
| M. kansasii (95) | M. kansasii 1 | 95 (29.7) |
| M. gordonae (30) | M. gordonae 1 | 2 (0.6) |
| M. gordonae 3 | 19 (6.0) | |
| M. gordonae 4 | 2 (0.6) | |
| M. gordonae 5 | 1 (0.3) | |
| M. gordonae 7 | 3 (0.9) | |
| M. gordonae 8 | 3 (0.9) | |
| M. fortuitum complex (24) | M. fortuitum 1 | 21 (6.6) |
| M. peregrinum 2 | 1 (0.3) | |
| M. peregrinum 3 | 2 (0.6) | |
| M. chelonae complex (21) | M. chelonae 1 | 5 (1.6) |
| M. abscessus 1 | 14 (4.4) | |
| M. abscessus 2 | 2 (0.6) | |
| M. marinum (2) | M. marinum 1 | 2 (0.6) |
| M. terrae complex (2) | M. terrae 1 | 1 (0.3) |
| M. nonchromogenicum 2 | 1 (0.3) | |
| M. szulgai (1) | M. szulgai 1 | 1 (0.3) |
a Number of isolates.
b PRA-hsp65 designation; see text for details.