Table 4 General information of VNTR 24-locus set and comparison of resolution in 105 clinical isolates of BJTB patients#.

From: The Clinical Features and Bacteriological Characterizations of Bone and Joint Tuberculosis in China

 

Times of repeat

 

Loci

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

HGDI*

ETRC

0

0

1

4

99

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0.110

MIRU16

0

0

4

100

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.092

Mtub39

0

2

2

90

7

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.261

Mtub30

1

0

8

1

94

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0.194

MIRU40

0

2

9

88

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.289

MIRU31

0

0

5

7

33

55

5

0

0

0

0

0

0.623

QUB-11b

0

0

16

9

32

43

5

0

0

0

0

0

0.713

MIRU20

0

4

101

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.074

Mtub21

0

10

0

14

40

35

6

0

0

0

0

0

0.721

QUB26

0

0

0

1

3

3

5

20

64

7

2

0

0.589

Mtub34

0

0

1

88

16

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.277

ETR-B

0

3

59

43

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.521

MIRU23

0

0

0

0

0

104

1

0

0

0

0

0

0.019

MIRU39

0

0

10

93

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.208

MIRU27

0

0

6

95

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.178

MIRU02

0

0

105

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

MIRU24

1

104

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.019

Mtub29

1

0

1

6

97

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.145

MIRU26

0

0

0

1

22

13

11

51

4

1

1

1

0.699

MIRU10

0

2

17

85

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.321

Mtub04

0

4

19

13

60

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.623

MIRU04

0

2

8

84

6

4

0

1

0

0

0

0

0.352

ETR-A

0

0

2

18

84

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0.333

QUB-4156c

0

1

6

83

6

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.365

  1. *HGDI: Hunter-Gaston Discrimination Index; HGID = 1 − [Σnj(nj − 1)]/N(N − 1); N is the total number of strains in the sample population, s is the total number of types described and nj is the number of strains belonging to the jth type.
  2. #Only 105 isolates were successfully analyzed using the 24 loci MIRU-VNTR system.