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Regional definitions used for the analysis of clonal relationships between geographic location and epitypes of 147 strains of PRSP. Isolate locations were divided into region 1 (northeast, n = 55), region 2 (southeast, n = 27), region 3 (southwest, n = 30), and region 4 (northwest, n = 35).
