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Table 2.

Serotype, Multilocus Sequence Typing, and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Type Diversity Among Clinical Bovine and Human Salmonella Isolates

	No. of subtypes found among				Simpson's index of diversity scores among
	Human isolates only	Bovine isolates only	Both human and bovine isolates	Total	Human isolates	Bovine isolates	Total
Serotype (SrT)	35	5	11	51	0.933	0.823	0.913
MLST	57	6	10	73	0.941	0.805	0.920
PFGE	116	44	7	167	0.991	0.968	0.991
SrT+PFGE^a	117	48	7	172	0.991	0.974	0.992
MLST+PFGE^a	119	45	6	170	0.992	0.968	0.991
SrT+MLST+PFGE^a	119	49	6	174	0.992	0.974	0.992

^{^a}

Isolates were also assigned unique subtypes based on combinations of (i) serotype (SrT) and PFGE type data, (ii) MLST and PFGE type data, and (iii) serotype (SrT), MLST, and PFGE type data.

MLST, multilocus sequence typing.