Table 3.

Standardized Index of Association of different V . parahaemolyticus populations to assess population structure

	Number of isolates	Standardized index of association${\mathbf{I}}_{\mathbf{A}}^{\mathbf{S}}$
Sri Lankan isolates	43	0.8043 (sld)
Ecuadorian isolates	30	0.6277 (sld)
Isolates from NB-Seas	36	0.6482 (sld)
All isolates from this study	130	0.4922 (sld)
pubMLST isolates	1089	0.6291 (sld)
One isolate per ST	584	0.0841 (sld)

(sld) significant linkage disequilibrium.