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Many
secondary typing methods available
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Spoligotyping,
others
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Approaches
to quantify the extent to which
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fingerprints
do not match
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Genetic
distance: expected waiting time for the steps
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required
to diverge from a hypothetical common
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ancestor
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Dice
coefficient: measure of similarity
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Is
an identical fingerprint necessary to conclude
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that
there is a recent chain of transmission?
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