TABLE 3.

Prevalence of PMEN clones, Lisbon DCC clones, and novel clones in each DCC^a

DCC code	Strain classification
	No. of DRPn fully characterized	No. of PFGE types	% Found of PMEN clones	% Found of Lisbon DCC clones	% Found of novel clones
1	31	9	77	13	10
2	25	9	60	12	28
5	13	7	77	8	15
7	14	5	79	0	21
9	11	4	82	9	9
15	11	4	46	54	0
16	28	7	57	0	43
17	6	3	100	0	0
18	8	5	63	0	37
19	1	1	100	0	0
20	9	3	56	0	44
21	19	8	47	0	53
22	21	7	76	0	24
23	5	5	40	0	60
Total	202	29	135 (67%)	15 (7%)	52 (26%)

^aPMEN clones found in our study: A, clone Spain^23F-1; SI, clone Spain^6B-2; B, clone Spain^9V-3; R, clone England¹⁴-9; E, clone Poland^6B-20; H, clone Portugal^19F-21; M, clone Greece^6B-22; DDD, clone Sweden^15A-25; FF, clone Colombia^23F-26. Lisbon DCC clones, clones detected in our previous day care center studies; Novel clones, clones found in this study.