Table 2.

Melting temperatures (mean and standard deviation) of the intra- and inter-assay of a randomly chosen subset of clinical specimens for different MTBC species with its corresponding coefficients of variation (CV) in % are listed.

	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Inter-Assay
	CV%	Tm values	CV%	Tm values	CV%	Tm values	CV%	Tm values
M. tuberculosis H37Rv		86.80		86.93		86.75
M. bovis BCG Pasteur ATCC 35734		86.38		86.55		86.37
M. microti ATCC 19422		86.52		86.70		86.48
M. tuberculosis (n = 2)	0.01	86.73 ± 0.01	0.02	86.91 ± 0.03	0.02	86.70 ± 0.03	0.13	86.80 ± 0.13
M. caprae (n = 5)	0.01	86.27 ± 0.17	0.02	86.45 ± 0.15	0.02	86.34 ± 0.12	0.12	86.35 ± 0.25
M. bovis (n = 6)	0.01	86.41 ± 0.06	0.01	86.59 ± 0.04	0.01	86.36 ± 0.04	0.15	86.48 ± 0.16
M. microti (n = 7)	0.03	86.59 ± 0.04	0.02	86.73 ± 0.05	0.02	86.48 ± 0.05	0.14	86.60 ± 0.17