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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiol Infect. 2009 Mar 4;137(10):1420–1425. doi: 10.1017/S0950268809002167

Table 1.

Simpson’s diversity index of PFGE within capsular serotypes of S. agalactiae

No. of isolates Simpson’s diversity index 95% CI
Ia 32 0·72 0·546–0·896
Ib 25 0·90 0·832–0·961
II 20 0·93 0·901–0·973
III 24 0·94 0·908–0· ·982
V 61 0·54 0·391–0·691
All 168 0·92 0·893–0·952

CI, Confidence interval.

Data not shown for capsular types IV (n=2) and VIII (n=1) and non-typable isolates (n=3) [25, 26].