TABLE 3.
The relationship between protein gene profiles and capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene MS for 191 GBS isolates
| MS (na) | No. of isolates with protein antigen gene profileb
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | AB | R | Epsilon | Alp2 | Alp3 | Alp4 | |
| Ia (18) | 1 | 17 | |||||
| Ib (16) | 1 | 15 | |||||
| II (7) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| III (96) | 6 | 85 | 4 | 1 | |||
| IV (1) | 1 | ||||||
| V (13) | 3 | 10 | |||||
| VI (20) | 19 | 1 | |||||
| VII (2) | 2 | ||||||
| VIII (18) | 18 | ||||||
| Total (191) | 29 | 16 | 88 | 23 | 4 | 31 | |
a
n, number of isolates.
b
Protein antigen gene profile codes are the following: A, bca positive; B, bac positive; R, rib positive; Alp2, alp2 positive; Alp3, alp3 positive; Alp4, alp4 positive; Epsilon, epsilon (= epsilon/alp1/alp5) positive.