TABLE 3.
emm cluster distribution, representing the five countries included in the review and their respective isolate counts
| emm cluster | No. of isolates |
Total no. (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | Kenya | Mali | South Africa | Tunisia | ||
| Clade Y | ||||||
| A-C1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0.0) |
| A-C2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (0.3) |
| A-C3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 36 (2.3) |
| A-C4 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 40 (2.6) |
| A-C5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 19 (1.2) |
| D1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
| D2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 (1.4) |
| D3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 (0.7) |
| D4 | 42 | 49 | 36 | 67 | 5 | 199 (13.0) |
| D5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 21 (1.4) |
| Clade X | ||||||
| E1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 47 (3.1) |
| E2 | 17 | 23 | 12 | 58 | 18 | 128 (8.4) |
| E3 | 30 | 59 | 70 | 64 | 20 | 243 (15.9) |
| E4 | 45 | 51 | 59 | 55 | 15 | 225 (14.7) |
| E5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
| E6 | 24 | 55 | 93 | 82 | 40 | 294 (19.2) |
| Single-type clusters | ||||||
| Clade Y | ||||||
| M5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (0.5) |
| M6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 (0.8) |
| M14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (0.1) |
| M18 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 41 (2.7) |
| M19 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 11 (0.7) |
| M26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (0.1) |
| M29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.3) |
| M38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0.2) |
| M57 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
| M74 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 (1.6) |
| M105 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0.2) |
| M122 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 (0.7) |
| M179 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 (0.8) |
| M218 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 (0.5) |
| M234 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
| Outliers | ||||||
| M55 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 23 (1.5) |
| M95 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 (0.8) |
| M111 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 (0.5) |
| No emm clustera | 20 | 11 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 55 (3.6) |
| Totalb | 307 | 357 | 396 | 390 | 145 | 1532 |
a
Those emm types that has not been assigned to a particular clade by Sanderson-Smith et al. (13).
b
Sixty-three isolates were “untypeable” by the author and was not assigned an emm type, or an “old” emm type that does not correspond with the CDC classification.