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. 2010 Oct 19;5(10):e13482. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013482

Table 3. P. aeruginosa MLVA9-UTRECHT typing results of four different patient populations.

group I group IIa group IIb group II group III group IV
CF ICU -I ICU-II ICU total Hospital acquired Non-CF/non-ICU Community acquired Non-CF/non-ICU Total
source respiratory respiratory respiratory respiratory non-respiratory non-respiratory diverse
# isolates (from # pat) 100 (90) 126 (97) 79 (64) 205 (161) 39 (38) 19 (19) 363 (308)
typeability 88% 93% 100% 95% 87% 89% 91%
# types 72 82 63 142 33 17 252
Index of diversity 0.984 0.981 0.991 0.991 0.989 0.988 0.995
CI (0.971–0.996) (0.97–0.992) (0.983–0.999) (0.987–0.996) (0.977–1.0) (0.969–1.0) (0.993–0.997)
Prevalent types (≥5%) MT27(11%) MT11(5%) MT44 (10%) MT68 (6%) MT161 (8%) NA MT255 (5%) MT261 (5%) MT276 (11%) MT212 (11%) NA

CF: cystic fibrosis patients, ICU: intensive care unit patients, MT: MLVA9-UTRECHT type,

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