Table 2. Determination of allelic diversity at each MIRU-VNTR locus of 197 isolates of the Euro-American lineage.

TR copiesa	Number of isolates at MIRU-VNTR locus
	VNTR 42	VNTR 43	MIRU 04	MIRU 40	MIRU 10	MIRU 16	1955	QUB-11b	ETR-A	VNTR 47	MIRU 26	MIRU 31	VNTR 52	QUB-26	VNTR 53
0	18		1										5		18
1	79	2	2	58		15	9	3	2	65	19		12	5	37
2	73	14	186	35	6	55	74	41	111	84	21	38	79	5	93
3	10	41	7	43	76	115	102	51	71	1	14	150	83	8	40
4	5	130		50	91	10	9	67	13	47	33	8	10	24	3
5		8	1	6	21		3	20			82	1	8	52
6				4	2			13			8			37
7					1			1			17			32
8											2			18
9				1										11
Ub	12	2				2		1			1			5	6
Allelic diversity	0.65	0.50	0.10	0.77	0.62	0.56	0.58	0.76	0.55	0.65	0.76	0.38	0.65	0.83	0.67

^aNumbers of repeat units at the MIRU-VNTR locus.

^bU, undetermined (no PCR product was obtained; not considered for calculation of allelic diversity.