TABLE 1.
Associated epidemiological information and typing results for the eight outbreak cases
| Characteristic | Results for casea: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Bb | C | D | E | F | G | Hb | |
| Associated patient information | ||||||||
| Received date (day/mo/yr) | 09/03/2010 | 22/11/2010 | 10/03/2011 | 06/01/2012 | 21/03/2013 | 30/04/2013 | 13/06/2013 | 28/11/2013 |
| Age (mo) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 46 | 9 | 6 |
| Town | A | A | A | B | A | A | B | A |
| Lineage typing | ||||||||
| abcZ | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||
| adk | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| aroE | 9 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 9 | ||
| fumC | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | ||
| gdh | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | |||
| pdhC | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||
| pgm | 9 | 9 | 20 | 9 | 9 | |||
| MLST | 6697 | 6697 | 6697 | 6697 | ||||
| Clonal complex | 41/44 | 41/44 | 41/44 | 41/44 | 41/44 | 41/44 | ||
| rplF | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Antigen typing | ||||||||
| PorA type | P1.7-2,4 | P1.7-2,4 | P1.7-2,4 | P1.7-2,4 | P1.7-2,4 | P1.7-2,4 | ||
| FetA type | F1-21 | F1-21 | F5-12 | F5-12 | F5-12 | |||
| fHbp peptide | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| NHBA peptide | 607 | Absent | ||||||
a
Cases B and H yielded an isolate on culture, while cases A, C, D, E, F, and G yielded CSF or blood extracts only.
b
NadA was absent in both case B and H isolates.