TABLE 1.
Allelic types and Hunter-Gaston diversity index (HGDI) of B. pseudomallei for 11 typing loci in this study.
| Approach | Loci | Distribution profile of allelic types (numbers of strains) | HGDI values |
| MLVA | VNTR4 (389) | 2 (26), 3 (39), 4 (55), 5 (3), 6 (12), 7 (11), 8 (5), 9 (11), 10 (3), 11 (1), 12 (5), 13 (1), 14 (1), 21 (2) | 0.8207 |
| VNTR2 (1788) | 3 (24), 4 (33), 5 (42), 6 (36), 7 (4), 8 (12), 9 (3), 10 (11), 12 (1) | 0.8229 | |
| VNTR1 (2341) | 3 (27), 4 (2), 5 (6), 6 (32),7 (15), 8 (44), 9 (5),10 (17),11 (10), 12 (6), 13 (2) | 0.8451 | |
| VNTR3 (933) | 4 (7), 5 (3), 6 (1), 7 (6), 8 (8), 9 (14), 10 (22), 11 (29), 12 (26), 13 (13), 14 (11), 15 (9), 16 (8), 17 (3), 18 (6) | 0.9025 | |
| MLVA_4 | – | 0.9899 | |
| MLST | lipA | 1 (137), 5 (25), 8 (4) | 0.2974 |
| ace | 1 (58), 3 (107), 4 (1) | 0.4652 | |
| gltB | 1 (116), 2 (24), 3 (1), 4 (37), 12 (12) | 0.5506 | |
| ndh | 1 (77), 3 (77), 6 (12) | 0.5679 | |
| lepA | 1 (98), 2 (17), 3 (45), 4 (5), 68 (1) | 0.5700 | |
| narK | 1 (6), 2 (14), 3 (29), 4 (99), 6 (2), 9 (6), 22 (6), 29 (4) | 0.6057 | |
| gmhD | 2 (60), 3 (36), 4 (9), 5 (19), 6 (4), 11 (17), 13 (6), 14 (1), 28 (13), 36 (1) | 0.7925 | |
| MLST | – | 0.9457 |
HGDI, Hunter-Gaston diversity index (); MLVA, Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis; MLST, Multilocus sequence typing; and VNTR, Variable-number tandem repeat analysis.