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Discriminatory power expressed as ID and concordance of SCRA and PFGE compared to epidemiological data
| Typing method | All isolates (n = 113) |
Concordance (%) with epidemiological data on the: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of types | IDc | Strain level (n = 113) | Household level (n = 54) | |
| PFGEa | 48 | 0.98 | 103 (91.2) | 49 (90.7) |
| SCRAb | 59 | 0.99 | 108 (95.6) | 49 (90.7) |
PFGE of SmaI macrorestriction analysis of genomic DNA.
SCRA, SpectraCellRA.
ID, index of discrimination according to Hunter and Gaston (12).
