Table 2. Allele diversity of the 19-locus MIRU-VNTR in 42 Algerian M. bovis strains.

Locus		Number of strains with the respective number of copies													Allele diversity (HGDI)
VNTR	Alias	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12–15	16
2165	ETR-A	0	0	1	7	11	15	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.7573
3232	QUB3232	0	0	2	1	0	17	13	8	1	0	0	0	0	0.7178
2163a	QUB11a	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	15	17	5	0	1	0.6927
2163b	QUB11b	0	16	8	16	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.6887
2461	ETR-B	0	0	1	20	19	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5796
3007	MIRU27	3	17	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5703
577	ETR-C	1	1	13	2	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5598
4052	QUB26	3	1	2	5	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.4785
3192	MIRU31/ETR-E	0	3	33	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.3659
580	MIRU04/ETR-D	2	0	38	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.1823
2687	MIRU24	2	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0929
154	MIRU02	1	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0476
802	MIRU40	1	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0476
2059	MIRU20	1	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0476
2996	MIRU26	0	0	0	1	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0476
4348	MIRU39	0	41	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0476
960	MIRU10	0	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1644	MIRU16	0	0	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2531	MIRU23	0	0	0	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

ETR: Exact Tandem Repeat; MIRU: Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit; QUB: Queen’s University Belfast.