Table 3.

Whole genome comparison of meningococcal carriage isolates in sequence type 53

^aAllelic differences based on all 2701 annotated genes accessible in Genome Comparator on pubMLST.org as of 27 Oct 2016 (n = 2701). Number of nucleotide differences based on the common genome of the 10 isolates, excluding genes that were not present in all isolates

Number of allelic and nucleotide (in italic) differences across the whole genome^a between isolates taken from the same individuals at time points A and B. The different colors (black and red) indicate the two subslusters of ST-53