Table 3. Comparison of the discriminatory power of spoligotyping, 19-locus MIRU-VNTR typing and the combination of both methods.

Variability	Spoligotyping	MIRU-VNTR	Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR
No. of strains included	60	42	42
Total number of profiles (n)	16	32	33
Number of individual profiles (n)	9	27	28
Discriminatory index (HGDI)	0.8294	0.9779	0.9826