Table 3 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) | ST(no. of isolates) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Invasive | Pharyngitis | |||||
K14 | 2 | 1 (0.6) | 13 (4.1) | 2 (13), 4 (1) | 31 (12), 48 (2) | 55 (5) |
L13 | 22 | 1 (0.6) | 7 (2.2) | 12 (8) | 21 (6), 13 (1), 19 (1) | 46 (2), 389 (1) |
9 | 1 (0.6) | 1 (0.3) | 9 (1), NT (1) | 46 (2) | 75 (2) | |
2 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 2 (1) | 31 (1) | 55 (1) | |
74 | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 9 (1) | 5 (1) | 120 (1) | |
st106M | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 4 (1) | 49 (1) | 53 (1) | |
M11 | 28 | 8 (5.0) | 3 (0.9) | 28 (11) | 24 (7), 27 (3), 15 (1) | 52 (5) |
N10 | 87 | 2 (1.3) | 7 (2.2) | 28 (8), 6 (1) | 20 (3), 27 (3), 2 (1), 18 (1), 44 (1) | 62(2) |
22 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 12 (1) | 21 (1) | 46 (1) | |
O9 | 1 | 4 (2.5) | 5 (1.6) | 1 (8), 13 (1) | 10 (9) | 28 (4) |
P8 | 78 | 4 (2.5) | 4 (1.3) | 11 (7), 3/13 (1) | 29 (8) | 409 (3) |
Q8 | 43 | 4 (2.5) | 0 | 3/13 (2), NT (2) | 11 (4) | 3 (2) |
58 | 2 (1.3) | 2 (0.6) | NT (4) | 17 (3), 14 (1) | 410 (3), 176 (1) | |
R6 | 75 | 0 | 6 (1.9) | 25 (6) | 39 (6) | 150 (2) |
S6 | 9 | 1 (0.6) | 4 (1.3) | 9 (5) | 40 (5) | 75 (2) |
12 | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 12 (1) | 33 (1) | 36 (1) | |