Table 1. Distribution of haemoglobin receptors in Neisseria species.
Species* | Both | HpuAB only | HmbR only | Neither |
N. meningitidis (n = 120) | 62 | 14 | 44 | 0 |
N. gonorrhoeae (n = 16) | 16‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 |
N. polysaccharea (n = 5) | 2‡ | 3 | 0 | 0 |
N. ‘bergeri’ (n = 1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
N. lactamica (n = 22) | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
N. cinerea (n = 7) | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
N. subflava (n = 16) | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
N. mucosa (n = 12) | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
N. mucosa var. heidelbergensis† (n = 4) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
N. (unknown) (n = 2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
N. bacilliformis (n = 6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
N. elongata variants (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
N. animalis (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. canis (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. dentiae (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. weaveri (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 81 | 73 | 51 | 14 |
Species were defined based on rMLST designations (Bennett et al., 2012).
Also known as N. oralis.
hmbR pseudogene.