Table 3. Variable number tandem repeat sizes for Bacillus anthracis isolates, Kazakhstan*.

Kazakhstan genotype no.	MLVA group†	MLVA genotype	vrrA	vrrB1	vrrB2	vrrC1	vrrC2	CG-3	pX01	pX02
1	A1.a	Gt-13 (4)	313	229	162	613	604	153	132	137
2	A1.a	Novel	313	229	162	613	604	153	135	137
3	A1.a	Novel	313	229	162	613	604	153	129	139
4	A1.a	Novel	313	229	162	613	604	153	129	137
5	A1.a	Novel	313	229	162	613	604	153	138	137
6	A1.a	Gt-6 (4)	301	229	162	613	604	153	126	137
7	A1.a	Gt-3 (4)	313	229	162	613	604	153	126	137
8	A1.a	Novel	313	229	162	613	604	153	132	139
9	Novel	Novel	325	229	162	613	604	158	132	137
10	A4	Novel	313	229	162	538	604	158	126	137
11	Novel	Novel	313	229	162	583	532	153	129	141
12	A3b	Novel	313	229	162	583	532	158	126	139

*Raw allele sizes were determined by electrophoresis on the ABI 310 (Applied Biosystems, Inc., Foster City, CA, USA); sizes were compared to control variable number tandem repeats and corrected to the sizes reported by Keim et al. (4).
†MLVA, multilocus variable number tandem repeat. MLVA group determined by unweighted pair group method arithmetic mean clustering with the diverse 89 genotypes described by Keim et al. (4).