Table 3.
Discriminatory power of spoligotyping and VNTR used alone and in association
Typing methods | Number of patterns | Number of clusters | Number of clustered isolates | Number of unique isolates | Size of clusters | Clustering Rate | HGIa |
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Spoligotyping | 40 | 7 | 144 | 10 | 2–114 | 89 | 0.822 |
VNTR | 51 | 23 | 129 | 25 | 2–124 | 69 | 0.940 |
Spoligotyping + VNTR | 55 | 24 | 123 | 31 | 2–27 | 78 | 0.951 |
HGI, Hunter–Gaston Index.