Skip to main content

Table 3 Discriminatory power of genotyping methods

From: Molecular epidemiology of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in South Omo, Southern Ethiopia

Typing Method

Different patterns (N) (%)

Clusters (N)

Cluster size (N)

Clustered isolates (N) (%)

Unique isolates (N) (%)

Clustering rate %

HGDI

Spoligotyping

66/156 (42.3)

24

2–17

114 (73.1)

42 (26.9)

57.7

0.97

MIRU-VNTR-24

149/155 (96.1)

6

2

12 (7.7)

143 (92.3)

3.9

0.9995

MIRU-VNTR −15

148/155 (95.5)

7

2

14 (9.0)

141 (91.0)

4.5

0.9994

MIRU-VNTR-12

102/155 (65.8)

23

2–8

76 (49.0)

79 (51.0)

34.2

0.9897

Spoligotyping + MIRU-VNTR

155/155 (100)

0

0

0

155 (100)

100

1

  1. HGDI Hunter Gaston Discrimination index