Stable and Local Reservoirs of Mycobacterium ulcerans Inferred from the Nonrandom Distribution of Bacterial Genotypes, Benin
Clément Coudereau, Alban Besnard, Marie Robbe-Saule, Céline Bris, Marie Kempf, Roch Christian Johnson, Télésphore Yao Brou, Ronald Gnimavo, Sara Eyangoh, Fida Khater, and Estelle Marion
Author affiliations: Université d’Angers, Angers, France (C. Coudereau, A. Besnard, M. Robbe-Saule, M. Kempf, F. Khater, E. Marion); INSERM, Angers (C. Coudereau, A. Besnard, M. Robbe-Saule, M. Kempf, F. Khater, E. Marion); Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire d’Angers, Angers (C. Bris, M. Kempf); Université d'Abomey Calavi, Abomey Calavi, Benin (R.C. Johnson); Fondation Raoul Follereau, Paris, France (R.C. Johnson); Maison de la Télédétection, Montpellier, France (T.Y. Brou); Centre de Diagnostic et Traitement de la Lèpre et de l’Ulcère de Buruli, Pobè, Bénin (R. Gnimavo); International Pasteur Institute Network, Yaoundé, Cameroon (S. Eyangoh)
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Table 3
Statistical measurements of the performance of the multinomial models on a real dataset of newly sequenced genomes, Benin and Nigeria*
Locale |
Accuracy† |
Matthews correlation coefficient‡ |
Northern Ouémé |
91.44% |
0.608* |
Southern Ouémé |
91.73% |
0.637* |
Nigeria (Ogun State) |
86.25% |
0.371** |
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