Table 2 Properties of the PFGE clusters with >15 GAS isolates collected from invasive infections and tonsillo-pharyngitis in Portugal
PFGE clustera | emmtype | No. of isolates (% of total) | T typeb(no. of isolates) | SAg genes profile (no. of isolates) | STc(no. of isolates) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Invasive | Pharyngitis | |||||
A51 | 3 | 15 (9.4) | 36 (11.25) | 3 (22), NT (14), 3/13 (13), 1 (2) | 8 (48), 37 (2), 2 (1) | 406 (8), 15 (4), 315 (2) |
B49 | 1 | 28 (17.5) | 20 (6.3) | 1 (46), NT (2) | 10 (47), 3 (1) | 28 (10) |
stIL103 | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 1 (1) | 10 (1) | 28 (1) | |
C38 | 89 | 12 (7.5) | 25 (7.8) | B3264 (37) | 27 (21), 29 (8), 46 (5), 43 (2), 40 (1) | 408 (5), 553 (1), 101 (2) |
75 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 25 (1) | 42 (1) | 150 (1) | |
D36 | 12 | 10 (6.3) | 25 (7.8) | 12 (29), NT (6) | 33 (29), 16 (5), 46 (1) | 36 (13), 551 (2) |
94 | 1 (0.6) | 0 | B3264 (1) | 35 (1) | 89 (1) | |
E30 | 6 | 11 (6.9) | 19 (5.9) | 6 (27), NT (2), 2(1) | 2 (28), 5 (1), 9 (1) | 382 (6), 411 (3) |
F29 | 4 | 1 (0.6) | 28 (8.8) | 4 (29) | 23 (27), 22 (2) | 39 (5) |
G27 | 4 | 8 (5.0) | 19 (5.9) | 4 (23), B3264 (2), 2/27/44 (1), 2/4 (1) | 23 (23), 30 (2), 40 (1), 41 (1) | 39 (8), 561 (1) |
H26 | 28 | 7 (4.4) | 17 (5.3) | 28 (23), NT (1) | 27 (13), 24 (10), 15 (1) | 52 (10) |
22 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 12 (1) | 3 (1) | nd | |
75 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | NT (1) | 7 (1) | 481 (1) | |
I24 | 44/61 | 6 (3.8) | 16 (5.0) | 2/27/44 (19), NT (2), 12 (1) | 32 (16), 12 (6) | 25 (5), 554 (1) |
75 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 25 (1) | 36 (1) | 150 (1) | |
89 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 5/27/44 (1) | 6 (1) | 555 (1) | |
J16 | 64 | 11 (6.9) | 0 | 3/13 (5), NT (4), 1 (2) | 46 (10), 43 (1) | 164 (4), 124 (1) |
53 | 2 (1.3) | 0 | NT (2) | 26 (2) | 11 (1) | |
74 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | B3264 (1) | 11 (1) | 120 (1) | |
87 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 28 (1) | 38 (1) | 62 (1) | |
89 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | B3264 (1) | 43 (1) | 568 (1) | |