TABLE 3.
Arithmetic mean of pairwise genetic distances within C. parvum type 1, within type 2, and between type 1 and type 2a
| Comparison | All isolates
|
Uganda excluded
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| nb | Mean distance | nb | Mean distance | |
| Within type 1 | 15 | 0.50 | 7 | 0.43 |
| Within type 2 | 65 | 0.61 | 36 | 0.44 |
| Between 1 and 2 | 72 | 0.97 | 36 | 0.93 |
Genetic distances were derived from microsatellite data (Table 2) using Jaccard's index as described in Materials and Methods.
Number of pairwise comparisons.