FIG 1.

Cluster analysis of M. avium subsp. hominissuis isolates from different hosts based on MATR-VNTR profiles. The M. avium subsp. hominissuis isolates comprised 46 strains (black) from pulmonary M. avium subsp. hominissuis disease patients and 30 strains (red) from HIV-positive patients, including strain 104 (green) as a reference. The phylogenetic distribution was created from distance matrix files by use of the Fitch-Margoliash algorithm according to the MATR-VNTR markers. The scale bar indicates the Manhattan distance. M. avium subsp. hominissuis isolates were classified into clusters I to III by MATR-VNTR typing analysis.