Table 2.

Nucleotide sequence similarity between porM1 and porM2 from members of the M. fortuitum-group and mspA.

Gene	Species	Nucleotide similarity index	Accession-no. to the EMBL nucleotide sequence database
porM1	M. fortuitum DSM 46621	88.2%	AJ880097
	M. fortuitum 10851/03	88.4%	AJ880098
	M. fortuitum 10860/03	87.4%	AJ874299
porM2	M. fortuitum 10851/03	86.5%	AM295792
	M. fortuitum 10860/03	86.5%	AM295793