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Table 2 Comparison of the MLMG patterns in dairy cattle farms in northern Italy, where more than one Neospora caninum-positive foetus had been sampled and genotyped during the study period

From: Spatial distance between sites of sampling associated with genetic variation among Neospora caninum in aborted bovine foetuses from northern Italy

Farm no.

Number of foetuses per farm (period)

Number of pairs of loci or sub-loci with differences of…

Differences/total number of comparisons (%)

  

1 Repeat

2 Repeats

3 Repeats

> 3 Repeats

 

4

2 (2015)

4

–

–

–

3/14 (21.4)

6a

4 (2015–16)

30

6

3

–

39/81 (48.1)

9

2 (2015)

1

1

–

–

2/3 (66.7)

10a

2 (2016)

2

–

–

1

3/10 (30.0)

15a

2 (2017)

2

–

–

1

3/11 (27.3)

17a

3 (2017–18)

4

–

–

2

6/13 (46.2)

25

2 (2017–18)

2

1

–

–

3/14 (21.4)

35a

2 (2018)

1

–

–

1

2/5 (40.0)

  1. aTable 3 provides details on microsatellite typing results for farms, where loci with 3 or > 3 repeats were observed