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. 2009 Jun 3;47(8):2651–2654. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01946-08

TABLE 1.

Clustering results from MIRU-VNTR and IS6110 RFLP genotyping

Method Total no. of patterns No. of unique patterns No. of clusters No. of isolates in largest cluster Clustering ratea
MIRU-VNTR only 653 493 160 110 0.623
IS6110 RFLP only 1,067 985 82 65 0.247
MIRU-VNTR + RFLP 1,185 1,108 77 9 0.153
a

The clustering rate is based on the number of isolates in all clusters divided by the total number of isolates.