Table 2. Specificity, sensitivity and kappa index of MSP-PCR fingerprinting using the primer (GTG)₅ in comparison with rDNA sequencing as the gold standard for the two datasets (“lower diversity” and “higher diversity”), using two ranges of band sizes: 200–3500bp or 200–900 bp.

Dataset	Range of band size		MSP-PCR fingerprinting	Gold standard (sequencing)	Kappa index
			(GTG5)
“Lower diversity”	200–3500bp	Specificity	23.30%	100.00%	0.177
		Sensitivity	100.00%	41.70%
	200–900bp	Specificity	15.20%	100.00%	0.169
		Sensitivity	100.00%	60.30%
“Higher diversity”	200–3500bp	Specificity	33.70%	97.10%	0.201
		Sensitivity	97.40%	35.60%
	200–900bp	Specificity	20.20%	95.50%	0.124
		Sensitivity	97.70%	36.40%