Multilocus sequence types of clinical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from peninsular Malaysia and their associations with disease outcomes

Table 1 Properties of the MLST loci in the clinical B. pseudomallei isolates from Peninsular Malaysia

Locus	No. of nucleotides analyzed	No. of alleles	No. of SNP	SNP Frequency^a	No. of variable sites	Sequence diversity rate^b
Ace	519	4	3	0.6%	3	4.1%
gltB	522	5	8	1.5%	3	3.1%
gmhD	468	5	12	2.5%	5	4.0%
lepA	486	6	21	4.3%	15	5.3%
lipA	402	5	7	1.7%	4	2.9%
narK	561	4	9	1.6%	5	3.3%
Ndh	443	3	2	0.5%	2	2.5%

^aRate of SNPs diversity in relation with locus length (no. of SNP/locus length)
^bRate of allele diversity in relation with the number of total referenced database alleles

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