TABLE 2.
Distribution of 245 bovine, 270 ovine, and 133 caprine S. aureus mastitis isolates assigned to 23 PTs containing isolates from two or three domestic ruminant species
| PTa | Clusterb | No. (%) of isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bovine | Ovine | Caprine | All | ||
| BOC 1 | 8 | 34 (13.9) | 84 (31.1) | 10 (7.5) | 128 (19.8) |
| BOC 2 | 8 | 47 (19.2) | 58 (21.5) | 18 (13.5) | 123 (19.0) |
| BOC 3 | 8 | 33 (13.5) | 27 (10.0) | 6 (4.5) | 66 (10.2) |
| BOC 4 | 8 | 18 (7.3) | 16 (5.9) | 9 (6.8) | 43 (6.6) |
| BOC 5 | 1 | 2 (0.8) | 13 (4.8) | 24 (18.0) | 39 (6.0) |
| BOC 6 | 8 | 16 (6.5) | 10 (3.7) | 2 (1.5) | 28 (4.3) |
| OC 1 | 8 | 0 | 6 (2.2) | 20 (15.0) | 26 (4.0) |
| BOC 7 | 11 | 10 (4.1) | 7 (2.6) | 8 (6.0) | 25 (3.9) |
| BO 1 | 8 | 4 (1.6) | 21 (7.8) | 0 | 25 (3.9) |
| BOC 8 | 17 | 12 (4.9) | 5 (1.9) | 2 (1.5) | 19 (2.9) |
| BOC 9 | 11 | 4 (1.6) | 4 (1.5) | 9 (6.8) | 17 (2.6) |
| BOC 10 | 8 | 13 (5.3) | 2 (0.7) | 2 (1.5) | 17 (2.6) |
| BO 2 | 12 | 16 (6.5) | 1 (0.4) | 0 | 17 (2.6) |
| BO 3 | 45 | 14 (5.7) | 1 (0.4) | 0 | 15 (2.3) |
| BO 4 | 11 | 9 (3.7) | 5 (1.9) | 0 | 14 (2.2) |
| OC 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 12 (9.0) | 13 (2.0) |
| BOC 11 | 12 | 9 (3.7) | 1 (0.4) | 2 (1.5) | 12 (1.9) |
| OC 3 | 8 | 0 | 3 (1.1) | 5 (3.8) | 8 (1.2) |
| BO 5 | 8 | 3 (1.2) | 1 (0.4) | 0 | 4 (0.6) |
| OC 4 | 8 | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 2 (1.5) | 3 (0.5) |
| OC 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.8) | 2 (0.3) |
| OC 6 | 8 | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.8) | 2 (0.3) |
| BO 6 | 27 | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.4) | 0 | 2 (0.3) |
a
PTs containing isolates from various combinations of host species. B. bovine; O, ovine; C, caprine.
b
The cluster to which each PT belonged is given (Fig. 1).