Table 2. ANOSIM comparison of UNID-proteomic, ID-proteomic, and REP-PCR fingerprints among E. coli isolates of different source groups.
| Source group | UNID-Proteomic |
ID-Proteomic |
REP-PCR |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sewage | Cow | Dog | Sewage | Cow | Dog | Sewage | Cow | Dog | |
| Pig | 0.572 | 0.850 | 0.758 | 0.451 | 0.744 | 0.693 | 0.539 | 0.929 | 0.982 |
| Dog | 0.764 | 0.997 | 0.666 | 0.981 | 0.647 | 0.375 | |||
| Cow | 0.979 | 0.950 | 0.514 | ||||||
| Global | 0.814 | 0.735 | 0.640 | ||||||
Results shown are the R-values of ANOSIM for global and pairwise comparison. The R-values vary between 0 and 1, where 0 represents that the groups concerned were identical and 1 represents that the groups were completely different. All R-values shown are statistically significant (p < 0.001).