Table 1.
Clinical and isolate subtype data associated with the major Asc I PFGE clusters identified in this study
| Cluster | Gender (no. of cases) M/F a | Age (no. of cases) >65 ys/total a | Clinical data | Isolate/subtype data | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of pregnancy related cases | Infection type a | Number. of cases with underlying condition a,b | No. of isolates | Serotype | ST/CC c | EC d | ||||
| Septicaemia | Meningitis | |||||||||
| 2 | 7/5 | 8/12 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 4b | 1 | I |
| 3 | 5/2 | 3/7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4b | 1 | I |
| 4 | 6/5 | 5/11 | None | 10 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1/2b | 3 | |
| 5 | 5/2 | 4/7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4b | 2 | IV |
| 6 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4b | 4 | |
| 7 | 1/4 | 0/5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4b | 6 | II |
| 8 | 2/2 | 2/4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1/2a | 29 | |
| 9 | 5/3 | 3/8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1/2a | 398 | |
| 8 | 1/2a | 8 | V | |||||||
| 11 | 12/18 | 26/30 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 1/2a | 38/101 | |
| 12 | 4/2 | 1/6 | none | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1/2a | 21 | |
Only the clusters containing more than three isolates are included.
apregnancy related cases are not included.
binformation about underlying diseases was unavailable for some cases.
cST, sequence type; CC, clonal complex.
dEC, epidemic clone.