Table 1.

spa, ST and MLST individual locus Simpson’s index of diversity (D) for ovine and bovine isolates.

Locus	Ovine D (95% CIa)	Bovine D (95% CIa)
spa	0.96 (0.95–0.97)	0.90 (0.87–0.93)b
ST	0.86 (0.83–0.90)	0.92 (0.90–0.93)
arcC	0.74 (0.69–0.78)	0.73 (0.69–0.77)
aroE	0.80 (0.71–0.84)	0.66 (0.59–0.74)
glpF	0.75 (0.72–0.79)	0.68 (0.62–0.74)
gmk	0.46 (0.39–0.53)	0.69 (0.62–0.75)
pta	0.55 (0.48–0.62)	0.70 (0.64–0.76)
tpi	0.78 (0.73–0.82)	0.59 (0.51–0.67)
yqiL	0.79 (0.71–0.82)	0.80 (0.76–0.84)

^a95% Confidence intervals.

^bspa type data was only available for 16 bovine isolates.