Table 2.

Simpson's indices of diversity and 95% confidence intervals of the typing methods used in the analysis

Typing method	SID (95% CI) [no. of partitions]
	Macrolide-resistant isolates (n = 155)	Macrolide-susceptible isolates (n = 648)
PFGE	0.851 (0.817–0.884) [22]	0.938 (0.932–0.944) [58]
emm typing	0.823 (0.792–0.854) [12]	0.927 (0.922–0.933) [34]
T typing	0.819 (0.787–0.850) [14]	0.924 (0.920–0.928) [16]
MLST	0.889 (0.853–0.924) [17]	0.959 (0.951–0.966) [52]