TABLE 3.

Virulence genes detected among Lebanese invasive pneumococcal isolates of serotype 24F.

Genes		Isolates
		310	475	521	525	563	566	573	574
Adhesion	cbpD	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	cbpG	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	lytA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	lytB	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	lytC	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	pce/cbpE	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	pspA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	pspC/cbpA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	pavA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Enzyme	hysA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	nanA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	eno	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Anti-phagocytosis	cps(A/B/B/D)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Iron uptake	piaA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	−
	piuA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Manganese uptake	psaA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Protease	cppA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	iga	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	htrA/degP	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	tig/ropA	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	zmpB	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Toxins	ply	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+

The present table shows the absence (-) or presence (+) of each considered genes from the VirulenceFactors database using VFanalyzer.