Table 5. Characterization of 10 genomic-repeat containing loci in the non-O157 STEC isolates used in this study.
| Genomic repeat-containing loci | ||||||||||
| CVN001 | CVN002 | CVN003 | CVN004 | CVN007 | CVN014 | CVN015 | CVN016 | CVN017 | CCR001 | |
| Number of alleles | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Tandem repeats range | 5–8 | 1–3 | 2–5 | 4–13 | 3–4 | 4–15 | 1 | 1–15 | 9 | 15–21 |
| Null alleles | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nei’s diversity index1 | 0.43 | 0.20 | 0.36 | 0.74 | 0.10 | 0.83 | 0 | 0.70 | 0.10 | 0.51 |
1
Nei’s diversity index for each locus was calculated as 1−∑(allele frequency)2 [67].