TABLE 3.
Numbers and sources for the 23 groups of identical M. avium strains
| Cluster (no. of bands) | No. of isolates
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV-positive patients | Isolates from non-HIV-infected patients
|
Non-human isolates | Total | ||
| Lunga | Lymph node | ||||
| 1 (17) | 2 | 2 | |||
| 2 (20) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 3 (21) | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 | |
| 4 (22) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 5 (20) | 8 | 8 | |||
| 6 (22) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 7 (18) | 4 | 1 | 1b | 6 | |
| 8 (19) | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 9 (19) | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||
| 10 (18) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 11 (19) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12 (23) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2c | 9 |
| 13 (16) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14 (20) | 2 | 2 | |||
| 15 (3) | 3 | 1 | 8b | 12 | |
| 16 (22) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 17 (9) | 1 | 1d | 2 | ||
| 18 (18) | 1 | 1 | 1c | 3 | |
| 19 (17) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 20 (20) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 21 (22) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 22 (21) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 23 (21) | 1 | 1b | 2 | ||
a
All isolates were pulmonary isolates except for one isolate from one urine sample.
b
Porcine isolate.
c
Isolates were cultured from peat.
d
This patient was a child from Greenland (native inhabitant).