Genotyping and clinical characteristics of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a tertiary care tuberculosis hospital in China

Table 2 Allelic diversity of the 15 MIRU-VNTR loci in the 110 MDR and 13 XDR M. tuberculosis strains from Jiangxi, China

VNTR locus	VNTR alias	Range of repeats	Allelic diversity (h) for
			Beijing isolates (n = 97)	Non-Beijing isolates (n = 26)	All isolates (n = 123)
424	Mtub04	1-5,7	0.49	0.74	0.61
577	ETR-C	2–4	0.01	0.04	0.02
580	MIRU04	2–8	0.75	0.67	0.75
802	MIRU40	1–4	0.33	0.62	0.43
960	MIRU10	1–6	0.34	0.65	0.49
1644	MIRU16	1–5	0.43	0.57	0.48
1955	Mtub21	0–9	0.77	0.79	0.82
2163b	QUB-11b	1–8	0.70	0.79	0.75
2165	ETR-A	1–4	0.23	0.51	0.40
2401	Mtub30	1–4	0.29	0.55	0.49
2996	MIRU26	1–10	0.79	0.79	0.83
3192	MIRU31	1–8	0.71	0.68	0.76
3690	Mtub39	1–6	0.13	0.63	0.34
4052	QUB-26	1–4,6-12	0.70	0.84	0.75
4156	QUB-4156	0-6	0.53	0.55	0.55

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