TABLE 3.
Genetic distances between pairs of VNTR allele profilesa
| VNTR allele profile | M. africanum group B 642432 | M. tuber-culosis type 633433 | M. microti type 653571 | M. bovis type 675542 | M. bovis BCG 655623 |
M. africanum group A
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 663535 | 664535 | 664536 | 564536 | 564544 | 564545 | 565544 | ||||||
| M. africanum group B 642432 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| M. tuberculosis type 633433 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| M. microti type 653571 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| M. bovis type 675542 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| M. bovis BCG 655623 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| M. africanum group A 663535 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| M. africanum group A 664535 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| M. africanum group A 664536 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| M. africanum group A 564536 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| M. africanum group A 564544 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| M. africanum group A 564545 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| M. africanum group A 565544 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
a
The box shows distances within the group A cluster of M. africanum strains from Sierra Leone. All three strains in M. africanum group B had an identical VNTR allele profile.