TABLE 3.

Discriminatory power of different MIRU-VNTR loci

MIRU locus	No. of isolates with the specified MIRU copy no.							HGDIa
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2	5	136	1					0.08
4	40	93	9					0.49
10	1	6	62	13	57		3	0.64
16	81	12	44	5				0.57
20	5	137						0.07
23		1	25		112	4		0.35
24	142							0.00
26	46	6	3	12	72	3		0.63
27		3	134	5				0.11
31		15	118	6	3			0.30
39	3	136	3					0.08
40	1	64	31	31	9	2	4	0.70

^aThe seven loci showing discriminatory power in our setting are indicated in boldface.