TABLE 2.

Allelic diversity of each MIRU-VNTR locus

No. of alleles	No. of isolates with MIRU-VNTR locus
	2	4	10	16	20	23	24	26	27	31	39	40
0		11
1	1	1	2	10	5	5	228	14	11	4	12	12
2	290	202	70	34	288	2	64	71	22	15	89	72
3	2	5	123	240		2	1	2	259	49	160	182
4		18	70	9		15		10	1	66	31	24
5		43	14			217		38		154	1	2
6		5	4			47		22		5		1
7		3	7			2		127
8			3					6
9						1		2
10						1		1
12						1
1a		1
3a		3
5a		1
Allelic diversityb	0.02	0.50	0.71	0.31	0.03	0.42	0.35	0.73	0.21	0.64	0.60	0.54

^aThe 53-bp unit at the 3′ terminus of locus 4 was absent.

^bAllelic diversity (h) was defined as h = 1 − Σ x_i, where x_i is the frequency of the ith allele at the locus (11).