Table 3.

Allelic polymorphism of the 12 MIRU-VNTR loci

Allele locus	No. of strains with MIRU copy no. of:										HGIa	Conclusion
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
2		17	307	12							0.162	Poorly discriminatory
4			227	35	1	74					0.534	Moderately discriminatory
40		61	12	152	89	13	10				0.684	Highly discriminatory
10	1	1	9	154	150	18	1	1	1		0.589	Moderately discriminatory
16		44	112	160	16	4					0.644	Highly discriminatory
20			337								0	Poorly discriminatory
23				2		172	158	4			0.519	Moderately discriminatory
24		177	123	23	7	7	1			2	0.585	Moderately discriminatory
26		7	71	25	17	132	21	52	9	3	0.766	Highly discriminatory
27		4	19	189	120	4					0.542	Moderately discriminatory
31			16	158	91	43	22	4	2		0.685	Highly discriminatory
39	2	78	196	55	5						0.5805	Moderately discriminatory

^aHGI, Hunter-Gaston index.