Table 1. Representative variant sequences of seven major types and their characteristics obtained in this study.
| Representative variant sequence | Type |
Relative abundancea
(%) |
Identityb (%) |
Residue |
Resistance phenotype | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water | Soil | Intestine | 102 | 117 | 179 | ||||
| A002 | Ib | 88.44 | 1.90 | 11.12 | 100.0 | W | S | D | AGR |
| A003 | IbL | 3.53 | 7.20 | 4.35 | 99.2 | W | L | D | AGR |
| A007 | RD | 0.03 | 6.07 | 1.68 | 98.5 | R | L | D | AGR CipR |
| A006 | RG | 0.01 | 4.51 | 3.64 | 97.7 | R | L | G | AGR CipR |
| A004 | WY | 0.01 | 1.99 | 7.05 | 98.5 | W | L | Y | AGR CipR GemR c |
| A001 | cr | 1.34 | 72.28 | 41.35 | 97.7 | R | L | Y | AGR CipR |
| A013 | 31 | 1.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 86.5 | W | S | D | AGR |
| Total | 94.49 | 93.94 | 69.20 | ||||||
Abbreviations: AG, aminoglycoside; Cip, ciprofloxacin; Gem, gemifloxacin; R, resistance.
a
Relative abundance indicates percentage of each sequence in different samples.
b
Sequence identity with the representative variant sequence (A002) of the wild type (Ib).
c
GemR, low-level resistance.