1. Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening1 and
2. Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 277052;
3. Molecular Mycobacteriology Laboratory, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany3;
4. Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam,4 The Netherlands;
5. Department of Microbiology, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain5; and
6. Department of Microbiology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand6
7. National Center for Infectious Diseases7and
8. School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 947208;
9. Diagnostics and Molecular Epidemiology Section,9 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333;
10. Institute for the Study of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 7703010;
11. Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases,11 National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, and