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Table 4 Top 20 countries from which strains were collected

Order	Country	Counts	Order	Country	Counts
1	Japan	8248	11	China	3429
2	France	8070	12	India	2907
3	United States	7701	13	Russian Federation	2872
4	Netherlands	6709	14	South Africa	2419
5	Korea	6270	15	Italy	2009
6	Germany	6051	16	Canada	1848
7	Thailand	5894	17	VietNam	1818
8	United Kingdom	5717	18	Sweden	1786
9	Belgium	5177	19	Australia	1695
10	Spain	3869	20	Switzerland	1466
Total		85955

114,578 of 273,933 strains contain information regarding their geographic origins. The strains were collected from 164 countries and regions, of which, 85,955 strains were collected from only 20 countries. This takes up approximately 74% of total strains, which indicates a relatively high sampling effort in these countries.

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