TABLE 5.

Associations of multispacer sequence typing (MST) and countries.

Country	Number of strains from this country	MST	Pearson’s correlation coefficient
Canada	5	21	0.84
The Netherlands	10	33	0.67
French Guiana	3	17	0.57
Russia	5	7	0.57
Russia	5	23	0.57
Senegal	4	19	0.50
Romania	3	18	0.42
USA	10	60	0.37
France	147	1	0.24
Senegal	4	6	0.20
USA	10	8	0.19
France	147	20	0.17
USA	10	16	0.17
Spain	3	4	0.16
Spain	3	8	0.16

Only significant association according to Pearson correlation test are shown (p < 0.05). Country with only one or two strains were excluded.