New Genetic Variants of Leptospira spp Characterized by MLST from Peruvian Isolates

Table 3

Genetic diversity parameters of isolates of pathogenic leptospires from the Iquitos (Peruvian Amazon), collected from 2002 to 2013.

Genetic diversity parameters	Species of pathogenic leptospires					All species
	L. interrogans	L. santarosai	L. noguchii	L. borpetersenii	L. kirschneri
Numbers of sequences	21	16	6	1	1	46
Numbers of haplotypes	2	11	5	1	0	20
Genetic diversity (SD)	0.429 ± 0.089	0.908 ± 0.063	0.933 ± 0.122	0	0	0.867 ± 0.041
Number of polymorphic sites (%)	16 (0.51%)	137 (4.4%)	133 (4.27%)	0	0	900(28.92%)
Nucleotide diversity	0.00220	0.01082	0.01834	0	0	0.10736