TABLE 1.

Characteristics of DL compared with those of the reference test method

Species (no. of isolates) and test method	Typeability (%)	Simpson's index of diversity (95% CI)a	Adjusted Rand's coefficient	Wallace's coefficient 1	Wallace's coefficient 2
E. cloacae (28)
DL	100	0.794 (0.632-0.955)	0.691	0.682	0.818
PFGE	96.4	0.843 (0.703-0.983)
Klebsiella spp. (23)
DL	100	0.964 (0.868-0991)	0.623	0.808	1.0
PFGE	95.7	0.938 (0.894-0.982)
E. coli (38)
DL	100	0.972 (0.952-0.992)	0.390	0.450	0.375
MLVA	100	0.966 (0.941-0.990)
P. aeruginosa (13)
DL	100	0.962 (0.919-1.0)	0.488	1.0	0.333
PFGE	92.3	0.985 (0.949-1.0)
P. aeruginosa (52)
DL	100	0.977 (0.958-997)	0.212	0.182	0.333
MLST	100	0.928 (0.828-0.989)
Acinetobacter spp. (26)
DL	100	0.982 (0.966-0.997)	0.908	0.833	1.0
PFGE	100	0.985 (0.970-0.999)
Stenotrophomonas spp. (25)
DL	100	0.963 (0.913-1.0)	0.697	0.6	0.857
PFGE	96	0.975 (0.937-1.0)
E. faecium (26)
DL	100	0.929 (0.868-0.991)	0.623	0.826	0.543
MLVA/esp	100	0.892 (0.822-0.962)
MRSA (50)
DL	100	0.913 (0.859-0.968)	0.266	0.189	0.571
Hospital hygiene classification	100	0.976 (0.960-0.991)
MRSA (50)
DL	100	0.913 (0.859-0.968)	0.261	0.198	0.568
PFGE	100	0.970 (0.953-0986)
MRSA (50)
DL	100	0.913 (0.859-0.968)	0.303	0.377	0.354
spa typing	100	0.908 (0.858-0.957)
MRSA (50)
DL	100	0.913 (0.859-0.968)	0.252	0.189	0.571
MLVA	100	0.971 (0.955-0.988)

^aCI, confidence interval.