Table 1. Spoligotype patterns of 59 M. bovis and one M. caprae strains and their relative frequencies.

SB No.	Spoligotype		No. of strains	Frequency [%]	SIT	Family
	binary code	octal code
SB0120	1101111101111110111111111111111111111100000	676773777777600	20	33.3	482	BOV_1
SB0121	1101111101111110111101111111111111111100000	676773677777600	13	21.7	481	BOV_1
SB0134	1100011101111110111111111111111111111100000	616773777777600	7	11.7	665	BOV_1
SB2521	1100011101111110111011111111111111111100000	616773577777600	5	8.3	n.k.	n.k.
SB0339	1101111101111110111101111000011111111100000	676773674177600	2	3.3	696	BOV_1
SB0828	1101111101111110111111111111111110111100000	676773777773600	2	3.3	1047	BOV_1
SB1542	1100011100011110111111111111111111111100000	616173777777600	2	3.3	n.k.	BOV
SB0119	1101111101111100111101111111111111111100000	676763677777600	1	1.7	695	BOV
SB0818	1101111101111110111111111111111101111100000	676773777767600	1	1.7	1044	BOV_1
SB0822	1100111101111110111111111111111111111100000	636773777777600	1	1.7	997	BOV_1
SB0848	1101111101110110111101111111111111111100000	676733677777600	1	1.7	1010	BOV_1
SB1452	1101111000111100111101111111111111111100000	674363677777600	1	1.7	1595	BOV
SB2520	1100011101111110111111111110111111111100000	616773777377600	1	1.7	n.k.	n.k.
SB2522	1101111101111110111110011111111011111100000	676773717757600	1	1.7	n.k.	n.k.
SB2523	1101111101111110100111111111111111111100000	676772377777600	1	1.7	n.k.	n.k.
SB0835	0100000000000000111111111110111011111100000	200003777357600	1	1.7	978	BOV_4 Caprae
	Total		60	100

n.k.: not known; SIT: spoligo-international type according to the SITVIT1 nomenclature; BOV: Bovine.

The binary code is represented by 43 digits. The number 0 indicate the absence of signal and the number 1 indicate the presence of signal.