Erp, an extracellular protein family specific to mycobacteria

The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AF213152 (Mycobacterium smegmatis), AF213153 (Mycobacterium marinum), AF213154 (Mycobacterium ulcerans), AF213155 (Mycobacterium xenopi) and AF315789 (Mycobacterium avium). The accession numbers for the partial sequences of the erp gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates are AF165856 (Benin), AF165857 (R.C.A.), AF165858 (Vietnam) and AF165859 (Tahiti).

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