TABLE 3.
Numbers of genomic polymorphisms detected among PFGE categories
| Organism | No. of genomic polymorphisms by PFGE classificationa: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indistinguishable | Closely related | Possibly related | Different | |
| VRE | 1.625 ± 1.473 (n = 64) | 821.59 ± 41.658 (n = 81) | 1,118.625 ± 21.564 (n = 8) | 3,796.11 ± 87.658 (n = 18) |
| MRSA | 18.15 ± 17.805 (n = 20) | 467.087 ± 234.213 (n = 23) | 149.224 ± 119.201 (n = 58) | 19,446.51 ± 9,101.092 (n = 35) |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 4.167 ± 1.863 (n = 6) | 5.773 ± 3.267 (n = 44) | 296.963 ± 380.451 (n = 27) | 37,277.180 ± 10,184.950 (n = 28) |
| All organisms | 5.467 ± 10.890 (n = 90) | 523.960 ± 371.877 (n = 148) | 275.505 ± 349.501 (n = 93) | 22,132.33 ± 15,125.14 (n = 81) |
a
Data represent average numbers of genomic polymorphisms ± standard deviations, with number of pairwise comparisons indicated in parentheses.