Table 3. Comparative analysis of the genotyping methods applied to study the clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains circulating in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.

Typing methods, Strain group	Number of genotypes in total	No. of unique genotypes	No. of clusters	No. of strains in clusters	HGDI value
Spoligotyping
All strains	46	29	17	2-91	0.758
Beijing strain only	5	3	2	3-91	0.063
Non-Beijing strains	41	26	15	2-62	0.768
VNTR analysis, all strains
12-MIRU-VNTR	91	69	22	2-52	0.917
24-MIRU-VNTR	174	150	24	2-10	0.995
Spoligotyping+12-MIRU
All strains	113	95	18	2-43	0.937
Beijing strains only	42	33	9	3-35	0.863
Spoligotyping+24-MIRU
All strains	181	159	22	2-9	0.996
Beijing strains only	80	72	8	2-5	0.994