Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Table 1 Allelic diversity of each MIRU-VNTR locus and their discriminatory power

Locus	Allelic diversity	Allele’s quantity	Discriminatory
Locus	(h) ^a		Power^b
Qub 26	0.7789	7	High
Mtub 04	0.7702	6	High
MIRU 26	0.7679	6	High
MIRU 16	0.7422	6	High
Qub 11	0.6975	7	High
MIRU 10	0.6568	6	High
Mtub34	0.5917	5	Moderate
MIRU 23	0.5830	6	Moderate
MIRU 40	0.5791	7	Moderate
MIRU 27	0.5624	4	Moderate
Mtub 39	0.4901	5	Moderate
Mtub 30	0.4462	4	Moderate
Qub 4156	0.4360	4	Moderate
Mtub 21	0.4199	4	Moderate
Mtub 29	0.4154	4	Moderate
MIRU 31	0.4147	6	Moderate
ETRC	0.3482	4	Moderate
ETRA	0.3308	4	Moderate
ETRB	0.3278	2	Moderate
MIRU 39	0.2678	3	Low
MIRU 2	0.1755	2	Low
MIRU 20	0.1755	2	Low
MIRU 4	0.1113	3	Low
MIRU 24	0.0194	2	Low

n = 104 MTb isolates
^aCalculated as described by Selander et al. [52]
^bDiscriminatory power: high (h > 0.6), moderate (0.3 < h > 0.6) and low (h ≤ 0.3)

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