TABLE 3.

Discrimination indices of compared methods^a

Method	No. of types	No. of subtypes	D	95% CI
MLVA	2	24	0.964	0.94-0.99
REA	10	27	0.933	0.88-0.98
PFGE	15	19	0.843	0.75-0.93
slpAST	7	13	0.815	0.72-0.91
PCR-ribotyping (United States	10	NA	0.700	0.56-0.83
PCR-ribotyping (United Kingdom)	10	NA	0.688	0.55-0.83
MLST	9	NA	0.699	0.56-0.83
AFLP	10	NA	0.631	0.46-0.80

^aCI, confidence interval; NA, not applicable.