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. 2008 Dec 22;8:170. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-170

Table 3.

Degree of discrimination obtained with two typing methods individually and combined

Method No. of different patterns No. of unique isolates No. of clustered isolates No. of clusters
Spoligotyping alone 87 63(18%) 293(82%) 24
MIRU-VNTR typing alone 140 104(29%) 252(71%) 36
Spoligotyping+ MIRU-VNTR typing 181 120(33%) 236(67%) 43