Table 1.

eBURST Groups of bovine dairy isolates in MLST database, including number of isolates, number of STs per eBURST group and the likely predicted founder (6 out of 7 matching loci)

Groupa	No. of isolates	No. of STs	Predicted founder
1	117	23	97
2	43	10	705
3	49	7	479
4	17	6	1
5	38	5	8
6	50	4	504
7	7	4	25
8	16	3	20
9	5	3	508
10	11	3	5
11	3	2	None
12	2	2	None
13	5	2	None
14	5	2	None

^aData taken 16th February 2015 (Table does not include 30 singletons)