Table 1.

A list of mycobacterial isolates used in this study.

Strain	Organism	Genes used to verify identity	Host	Sample origin
ATCC 19698	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	Cow	Feces
JTC 1281	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	Oryx	Lymph node
JTC 1285	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	Goat	Feces
M. ap 4B	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	Human	Ileum
DT 3	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	British red deer	Feces
Env 210	M. ap	16s rRNA, IS1311	Dairy farm	Environment
DT 78	M. avium	16s rRNA, Hsp65	Water buffalo	Ileum
Env 77	M. avium	16s rRNA, Hsp65	Dairy farm	Environment