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Table 1 Discriminatory power of spoligotyping and 15-locus MIRU-VNTR among 151 M. tuberculosis isolates from Ndola, Zambia

From: Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes circulating in Ndola, Zambia

Genotyping method

Number of different profiles

Number of isolates with unique profile

Number of clusters

Number of isolates in clusters

Clustering rate (%)

h index

Spoligotyping

39

27

12

124

74.2

0.840

MIRU-VNTR

92

65

27

86

39.1

0.988

MIRU-VNTR + spoligotyping

94

68

26

83

37.7

0.989