TABLE 3.
Typing results for 950,275 pairwise comparisons of ESBL-E isolates with different degrees of epidemiological linkage by MLST, cgMLST, and wgMLST
| Epidemiological link between isolates and typing method | Pairwise comparison |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonally related |
Clonally unrelated |
Nontypeablea |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Same patient (n = 726) | ||||||
| MLST | 550 | 75.8 | 136 | 18.7 | 40 | 5.5 |
| cgMLST | 564 | 77.7 | 161 | 22.2 | 1 | 0.1 |
| wgMLST | 565 | 77.8 | 160 | 22.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Same survey (n = 1,180) | ||||||
| MLST | 168 | 14.2 | 930 | 78.8 | 82 | 6.9 |
| cgMLST | 129 | 10.9 | 1,051 | 89.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| wgMLST | 131 | 11.1 | 1,049 | 88.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Same ward (n = 14,291) | ||||||
| MLST | 1,165 | 8.2 | 12,465 | 87.2 | 661 | 4.6 |
| cgMLST | 329 | 2.3 | 13,960 | 97.7 | 2 | 0.0 |
| wgMLST | 301 | 2.1 | 13,988 | 97.9 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Same hospital (n = 93,740) | ||||||
| MLST | 6,908 | 7.4 | 82,414 | 87.9 | 4,418 | 4.7 |
| cgMLST | 921 | 1.0 | 92,813 | 99.0 | 6 | 0.0 |
| wgMLST | 778 | 0.8 | 92,956 | 99.2 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Other hospital (n = 840,338) | ||||||
| MLST | 59,691 | 7.1 | 738,100 | 87.8 | 42,547 | 5.1 |
| cgMLST | 4,106 | 0.5 | 836,088 | 99.5 | 144 | 0.0 |
| wgMLST | 2,599 | 0.3 | 837,595 | 99.7 | 144 | 0.0 |
a
MLST, unknown ST, minor or major mismatch (n = 47,748); cgMLST/wgMLST, no cutoff available for K. oxytoca (n = 153).