Table 1.

M. tuberculosis genomic regions deleted in all strains of Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) and annotations of deleted genes in the lab-adopted virulent M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv.

Region Deleted (RD) a	Annotations (Rv nos.) of Deleted Genes b
RD1	Rv3871-Rv3879c
RD4	Rv0221-Rv0223c
RD5	Rv3117-Rv3121
RD6	Rv1506c-Rv1516c
RD7	Rv2346c-Rv2353c
RD9	Rv3617-Rv3623
RD10	Rv1255c-Rv1257c
RD11	Rv3425-Rv3429
RD12	Rv2072c-Rv2075c
RD13	Rv2645–Rv2660c
RD15	Rv1963c-Rv1977

^a Regions Deleted (RDs) are numbered according to Behr et al. [108]. ^b Rv nos. of deleted genes are assigned in M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv genome according to Behr et al. [108].