TABLE 1.
Distribution of S. aureus isolates recovered from bovine, ovine, or caprine mastitis according to the host spectrum of the PFGE PTs to which the isolates belong
| Host origin | No. of isolates | % of isolates in PTs grouped by host categorya |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | O | C | BO | BC | OC | BOC | ||
| Bovine | 333 | 26.4 | 14.1 | 0 | 59.5 | |||
| Ovine | 384 | 29.7 | 7.8 | 3.4 | 59.1 | |||
| Caprine | 188 | 29.3 | 0 | 21.8 | 48.9 | |||
a
Abbreviations: B, PTs with only bovine isolates; O, PTs with only ovine isolates; C, PTs with only caprine isolates; BO, PTs with bovine and ovine isolates; OC, PTs with ovine and caprine isolates; BOC, PTs with bovine, ovine, and caprine isolates.