TABLE 4.
Mother-child transmission of S. mutans by MLST analysisa
| Strain | Serotype | ST | Allelic assignment
|
Patient age | Concatenated sequence homology (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tkt | glnA | gltA | glk | aroE | murI | lepC | gyrA | |||||
| LJ3 | e | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 37 yr | 99.4 |
| LJ4 | e | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 yr 9 mo | |
| LJ11 | c | 25 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 38 yr | 100 |
| LJ12 | c | 25 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 yr 3 mo | |
| LJ16 | c | 43 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 33 yr | 99.6 |
| LJ17 | c | 63 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 yr 7 mo | |
| LJ24 | f | 34 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 31 yr | 99.1 |
| LJ25 | c | 89 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 5 yr 4 mo | |
| LJ26 | c | 51 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 37 yr | 99.2 |
| LJ27 | c | 90 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 9 yr 11 mo | |
| LJ30 | c | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 35 yr | 100 |
| LJ31 | c | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 yr 2 mo | |
a
For each pair of rows, the top row gives mother data and the bottom row gives child data.