TABLE 3.
MLST polymorphisms in 26S and mt26S regions of DNA from P. jirovecii isolated from patients 1 to 20
Patient no. | Nucleotide(s) in 26S at position(s) (bp):
|
26S allelea | Base(s) in mt26S at position(s) (bp):
|
mt26Sb allelea | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 78 | 212 | 296 | 305 | 54-57 | 80e | 85 | 248 | 288 | |||
01 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
02b | ||||||||||||
03 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
04 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
05 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
06 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
07 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
08 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
09b | ||||||||||||
10 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
11 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
12 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
13 | A | A | A | 5× T | —f | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
14g | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 | ||||||
15 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
16 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | A | C | A | 7 |
17 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | T | C | A | 8 |
18 | A | A | A | 6× T | C | 1 | 4× A | T | C | C | A | 15d |
19 | A | A | A | 6× T | C | 1 | 4× A | C | C | C | A | 2 |
20 | A | A | A | 5× T | CT | 4d | 4× A | C | C/Ac | C/Tc | A | >2 types (not identifiable) |
Alleles were determined as described at Hauser et al. (8).
BAL samples from patients 2 and 9 were not available for MLST typing.
Sequence not clearly identifiable; possibly more than two types.
New allele, identified in this study.
Polymorphism was described in this study for the first time at this position and was not taken into account for the alleles reported earlier by Hauser et al. (8).
—, sequence not clearly identifiable.
There was no PCR product for 26S DNA from P. jirovecii isolated from patient 14.