Table 2. Simpson’s Indices of Diversity (ID) and concordance of MLVA and spa typing for all analysed isolates, for isolates associated with CC398 and for isolates associated with the two predominant spa types associated with CC398.
| Typing method | No. of types | Simpson’s ID (C.I 95%)1 | Adjusted Wallace’s coefficient1 | |
| All analysed isolates | spa | MLVA | ||
| MLVA | 20 | 0.789 (0.735–0.844) | 0.863(0.775–0.950) | NA |
| spa | 20 | 0.760 (0.701–0.818) | NA | 0.728(0.598–0.859) |
| All spa -types associated with CC398 | spa | MLVA | ||
| MLVA | 17 | 0.776 (0.720–0.833) | 0.860(0.770–0.949) | NA |
| spa | 17 | 0.745 (0.685–0.805) | NA | 0.724(0.591–0.856) |
| Spa -types t011 and t034 | spa | MLVA | ||
| MLVA | 9 | 0.564 (0.452–0.677) | 1.000(1.000–1.000) | NA |
| spa | 2 | 0.429 (0.350–0.508) | NA | 0.580(0.378–0.783) |
1
C. I. = confidence interval; NA = not applicable.