Table 1. Predominant PCR/ESI-MS sequence types and rep-PCR types analyzed by Kullback-Leibler (KL) and Pearson correlation (PC) methods.
PCR/ESI-MS sequence type (ST) | No. | rep-PCR Kullback-Leibler (KL) type | No. | rep-PCR Pearson correlation (PC) type | No. |
ST 10* | 47 | KL 1 | 16 | PC 1 | 10 |
ST 12* | 14 | KL 2 | 23 | PC 2 | 20 |
ST 1* | 3 | KL 3 | 10 | PC 3 | 5 |
ST 86* | 1 | KL 4 | 7 | PC 4 | 21 |
KL 5 | 5 | PC 5 | 5 | ||
Unique | 4 | PC 6 | 2 | ||
Unique | 2 | ||||
ST 14 | 38 | KL 5 | 28 | PC 7 | 28 |
KL 6 | 7 | PC 8 | 7 | ||
Unique | 3 | Unique | 3 | ||
ST 54 | 4 | KL 7 | 2 | PC 9 | 3 |
Unique | 2 | Unique | 1 |
rep-PCR did not differentiate among ST 10, ST 12, ST 1 and ST 86.