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Published in final edited form as: Asia Pac J Public Health. 2012 Dec 13;26(1):77–84. doi: 10.1177/1010539512469249

Table 2.

Genotype Clustering by Jurisdiction—USAPI, 2004–2008.

Jurisdiction	Number of Genotype Clusters^a	Range of Number of Cases Within Each Cluster	Percentage of Cases Within a Genotype Cluster
American Samoa	1	2	25
CNMI	4	2–19	46
Guam	11	2–15	65
FSM	15	2–19	85
Palau	3	3–4	45
RMI	9	2–56	85

Abbreviations: USAPI, United States–Affiliated Pacific Islands; CNMI, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Island; FSM, Federated States of Micronesia; RMI, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Genotype cluster is at least 2 cases in the same jurisdiction with isolates that have matching spoligotype and 12-locus MIRU-VNTR (ie, PCR Type).