TABLE 3.
Phenotypic diversity within the lineages represented among the Cuban isolates
| Phenotypic characteristic | No. of disease strains/no. of carrier strains in clonal complex: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-32 | ST-41/44 | ST-53 | ST-103 | ST-22 | ST-8 | ST-198 | ST-269 | Other STs | Total | |
| Serogroup | ||||||||||
| B | 123/106 | 5/1 | 0/2 | 4/0 | 5/0 | 1/0 | 6/2 | 144/111 | ||
| C | 4/0 | 1/0 | 5/0 | |||||||
| W135 | 0/2 | 0/2 | ||||||||
| Z | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||
| NG | 0/7 | 0/4 | 0/48 | 0/2 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/1 | 0/7 | 0/79 | |
| Serotype | ||||||||||
| 4 | 123/109 | 4/1 | 0/1 | 4/0 | 5/0 | 1/0 | 3/3 | 140/114 | ||
| 15 | 3/0 | 0/1 | 0/5 | 3/3 | 6/9 | |||||
| Others | 0/6 | 0/6 | ||||||||
| NT | 0/4 | 2/4 | 0/42 | 0/3 | 0/7 | 0/1 | 1/3 | 3/64 | ||
| Serosubtype | ||||||||||
| 5 | 5/0 | 0/4 | 5/4 | |||||||
| 5,2 | 4/0 | 2/0 | 6/0 | |||||||
| 6 | 2/0 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 2/10 | ||||||
| 7 | 1/0 | 0/8 | 2/0 | 3/8 | ||||||
| 12 | 0/7 | 0/7 | ||||||||
| 19,15 | 120/91 | 2/0 | 1/0 | 1/2 | 124/93 | |||||
| Others | 3/19 | 4/4 | 0/6 | 0/1 | 2/2 | 9/32 | ||||
| NST | 0/3 | 0/1 | 0/29 | 0/3 | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/39 | |||
| Combinations (phenotypes) | ||||||||||
| B:4:P1.19,15 | 120/90 | 2/0 | 1/0 | 1/2 | 124/92 | |||||
| NG:NT:P1.NST | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/27 | 0/2 | 0/32 | |||||
| Others | 3/21 | 7/4 | 0/23 | 4/1 | 0/7 | 5/0 | 0/5 | 0/1 | 6/7 | 25/69 |