Table 6.
Adjusted Wallace coefficients and 95% confidence intervals (in parenthesis) in percent indicating the concordance between different partitions for the 467 A. phagocytophilum strains that were typeable by MLST and ankA
| Host | ST | CC | MLST cluster | ankA cluster | Country of origin | Continent of origin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | – | 22.3 (18.3–26.4) | 62.3 (57.2–67.4) | 83.7 (80.1–87.3) | 66.5 (60.2–72.7) | 46.2 (39.4–53.0) | 77.1 (69.1–85.2) |
| ST | 29.0 (24.8–33.1) | – | 100 (100–100) | 100 (100–100) | 99.7 (99.2–100) | 32.6 (24.5–40.7) | 100 (100–100) |
| CC | 15.6 (12.7–18.6) | 19.4 (16.3–22.4) | – | 85.3 (81.9–88.6) | 84.8 (82.8–86.8) | 19.3 (12.7–26.0) | 96.9 (93.5–100) |
| MLST cluster | 5.5 (4.0–6.9) | 5.0 (2.8–7.2) | 22.1 (15.1–29.2) | – | 44.2 (34.9–53.5) | 9.1 (2.6–15.5) | 67.9 (53.9–81.8) |
| ankA cluster | 9.6 (7.5–11.7) | 11.1 (8.3–13.9) | 48.8 (39.7–57.8) | 98.0 (96.7–99.2) | – | 23.8 (16.0–31.6) | 100 (100–100) |
| Country | 11.0 (9.0–13.1) | 6.0 (3.9–8.1) | 18.4 (11.2–25.7) | 33.4 (18.2–48.5) | 39.4 (28.5–50.4) | – | 100 (100–100) |
| Continent | 2.9 (1.6–4.2) | 2.9 (1.0–4.8) | 14.7 (8.7–20.6) | 39.5 (26.4–52.6) | 26.3 (17.3–35.3) | 15.9 (9.3–22.5) | – |
Note: Adjusted Wallace coefficients > 75% are marked in bold