Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex from Cattle Lymph Nodes in Eastern Cape Province

Table 1

The supremacy of spoligotyping and VNTR used exclusively and in combination.

Typing methods	Number of clusters	Number of clustered isolates	Number of unique isolates	Size of clusters	Clustering rate
Spoligotyping	13	146	16	2–48	82.1	0.485
12 MIRU-VNTR	8	113	49	2–41	64.8	0.671
Spoligotyping + VNTR	11	98	64	2–49	53.7	0.676

: Hunter-Gaston Diversity Index; the clusters that were counted were only the outer clusters (clusters that are directly linked to the root).