Table 1. Allelic types and Hunter and Gaston Diversity index (HGDI) of B. melitensis and B. abortus isolates for 16 loci in this study.

	Locus	B. melitensis				B. abortus
		ATsa	TRsb	HGDIc	CId	ATsa	TRsb	HGDIc	CId
Panel 1	Bruce 06	2	1,3	0.048	0.000-0.113	1	4	0	0
	Bruce 08	2	4-5	0.094	0.008-0.180	1	5	0	0
	Bruce11	2	2-3	0.048	0.000-0.113	3	2-4	0.185	0.067-0.303
	Bruce 12	1	13	0	0	1	12	0	0
	Bruce 42	2	2,4	0.048	0.000-0.113	1	2	0	0
	Bruce 43	3	1-3	0.014	0.004-0.224	1	2	0	0
	Bruce 45	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	0
	Bruce 55	2	2-3	0.048	0.000-0.113	3	1-3	0.395	0.271-0.519
Panel 2A	Bruce 18	2	4,6	0.007	0.000-0.148	3	6-8	0.136	0.028-0.245
	Bruce 19	4	20-23	0.223	0.106-0.348	2	17,21	0.029	0.027-0.084
	Bruce 21	1	8	0	0	2	8-9	0.029	0.027-0.084
Panel 2B	Bruce 04	6	3-8	0.732	0.690-0.779	3	4-6	0.528	0.423-0.633
	Bruce 07	4	4-8	0.118	0.022-0.215	4	4-7	0.562	0.448-0.676
	Bruce 09	6	1,3-4,6-8	0.186	0.007-0.301	10	3-12	0.842	0.809-0.875
	Bruce 16	9	2-10	0.826	0.786-0.866	2	3-4	0.183	0.068-0.297
	Bruce 30	7	3-8,10	0.749	0.678-0.820	2	3,5	0.205	0.008-0.323

^aAllelic types

^bThe total number of repeat units at each locus was determined by the correlation with the amplicon size according to previously published reports (Materials and Methods)

^cHunter and Gaston index

^dPrecision of the diversity index, expressed as 95% upper and lower boundaries