Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Central Asian Strain1 using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit genotyping

Table 1 Allelic diversity of 367 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan.

MIRU number	Allele Number										Allelic Diversity	Rank	Conclusion
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
2	18	85	262	2							0.4355	11	*Moderately discriminant
4	21	13	290	9	11	22	1				0.3670	12	Moderately discriminant
10	18	4	29	48	73	133	50	8	4		0.7862	3	#Highly discriminant
16	43	19	46	126	83	40	9		1		0.7885	2	Highly discriminant
20	22	60	248	29	3	4			1		0.5080	10	Moderately discriminant
23	11	4	4	10	49	234	42	8	4	1	0.5616	8	Moderately discriminant
24	77	238	34	2	3	12		1			0.5271	9	Moderately discriminant
26	9	24	20	12	31	58	96	84	30	3	0.8337	1	Highly discriminant
27	20	23	107	167	42	8					0.6893	7	Highly discriminant
31	18	4	30	101	116	73	25				0.7731	4	Highly discriminant
39	22	60	153	116	15	1					0.6962	6	Highly discriminant
40	11	31	116	150	51	6	2				0.7073	5	Highly discriminant
	Average										0.6394

Discriminatory Index:^#≥0.6 = Highly Discriminant and *0.3–0.59 = Moderately Discriminant

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