Table 2.

HGDI values of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Funing, Shanghai, Taiwan and Japan

MIRU-VNTR locus	Funing	Shanghai	Taiwan	Japan
ETR C	0·061	0·142	0·097	0·028
MIRU4	0·130	0·072	0·047	0·05
ETR A	0·204	0·178	0·220	0·145
Mtub30	0·266	0·086	0·107	0·317
Mtub39	0·325	0·180	0·207	0·185
Qub4156	0·326	0·550	0·554	0·622
MIRU16	0·340	0·153	0·086	0·307
MIRU40	0·390	0·244	0·224	0·269
Mtub04	0·483	0·333	0·651	0·474
Qub26	0·590	0·633	0·566	0·675
Mtub21	0·592	0·582	0·565	0·459
MIRU31	0·650	0·168	0·587	0·296
Qub11b	0·663	0·662	0·710	0·767
MIRU10	0·684	0·152	0·325	0·436
MIRU26	0·744	0·539	0·456	0·341

HGDI, Hunter–Gaston discriminatory index.