Table 3.
Variability of biofim and motility phenotypes among a set of 96 clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates.
| Genotypic profile$ | Number of isolates in the given profile | biofilm | Motility | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| weak | moderate | strong | twitch | swim | swarm | ||
| 1 | 7 (1)* | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 1 (1) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | 15 (4) | 1 | 2 | 12 | |||
| 4 | 5 (2) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 2 (1) | 2 | |||||
| 7 | 11 (3) | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 (2) | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 9 | 4 (1) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| 10 | 4 (1) | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 4 (1) | 4 | 4 | 2 | |||
| 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 | 2 (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 15 | 5 (1) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 16 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 17 | 11 (1) | 1 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 5 | |
| 18 | 2 (1) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 19 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 20 | 2 (2) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 21 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 22 | 10(1) | 10 | 1 | 10 | |||
* Number in brackets is number of patients from whom the strain derived.
$ RAPD genotyping based upon primer 10514 and employing a cut off of 85% similarity.