The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

Table 2 Discriminatory indices for and congruence values between PFGE, MLST and MLVA for all 58 hospital E. faecium. [37–39]

	PFGE	MLST	MLVA	Discriminatory index	Confidence interval (95% CI)
PFGE		0.935	0.863	0.972	[0.951–0.992]
MLST	0.935		0.873	0.91	[0.877–0.943]
MLVA	0.863	0.873		0.842	[0.79–0.893]

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