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. 2008 Jan 23;46(3):966–971. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02016-07

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)
a

Alleles were determined as described at Hauser et al. (8).

b

BAL samples from patients 2 and 9 were not available for MLST typing.

c

Sequence not clearly identifiable; possibly more than two types.

d

New allele, identified in this study.

e

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).

f

—, sequence not clearly identifiable.

g

There was no PCR product for 26S DNA from P. jirovecii isolated from patient 14.