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Table 2 Genetic diversity of the selected loci among the Corynebacterium strains analysed

From: Identification and diversity of multiresistant Corynebacterium striatum clinical isolates by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and by a multigene sequencing approach

No. of strains

Locus

Fragment length (bp)£

No. of alleles

Haplotype (gene) diversity ± SD

No. of polymorphic sites

Avg number of nucleotide differences

Nucleotide diversity ± SD

56 (48)

16S rDNA

872

5 (1)

0.722 ± 0.159

71 (0)

31.972

0.037 ± 0.007

56 (49)

ITS1Â¥

360Â¥

17 (10)

-

-

-

-

56 (49)

gyrA

200

7 (3)

0.604 ± 0.040 (0.527 ± 0.001)

39 (3)

2.452

(1.073)

0.012 ± 0.006 (0.005 ± 0.000)

56 (49)

rpoB

380

7 (3)

0.498 ± 0.076

(0.379 ± 0.079)

116 (4)

11.551 (0.912)

0.0314 ± 0.012 (0.002 ± 0.000)

56 (49)

hsp65

287

4 (1)

0.138 ± 0.062 (0 ± 0)

62 (0)

6.199

(0)

0.022 ± 0.011

(0 ± 0)

35 (32)

sodA

295

2 (1)

0.057 ± 0.053 (0 ± 0)

64 (0)

3.657

(0)

0.012 ± 0.011

(0 ± 0)

53 (49)

ermX

367

1 (1)

0 ± 0

(0 ± 0)

0 (0)

0

(0)

0 ± 0

(0 ± 0)

41 (38)

aphA

333

2 (2)

0.095 ± 0.061 (0.053 ± 0.049)

1 (1)

0.095

(0.053)

0.0003 ± 0.0002 (0 ± 0)

  1. The values corresponding only to clinical strains of C. striatum are given within brackets
  2. £ The number indicated the length of the sequenced fragment used for the polymorphic analysis
  3. ¥ The number of polymorphic sites, and the haplotype and nucleotide diversity was not calculated for the ITS1 region because in most cases more than one operon was detected. The number of alleles was established directly from the alignment