TABLE 1.
Characteristics of our panel of 18 gonococcal strains
| Strain | Country of isolation | Yr of isolation | Auxotype/serotype | Categorya | RAPDb type
|
ARDRA type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primer D11344 | Primer D8635 | ||||||
| 1 | United Kingdom | 1993 | NR/IB-6 | — | b | A | III |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 1986 | NR/IB-1 | PPNG | b | B | II |
| 3 | Thailand | 1979 | NR/IA-6 | PPNG | b | C | I |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 1990 | AHU/IA-2 | — | c | A | II |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 1989 | NR/IB-2 | — | b | A | II |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 1989 | PAOU/IB-2 | — | a | A | I |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 1989 | H/IB-5 | PPNG | a | C | IV |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 1989 | NR/IB-3 | — | c | D | I |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 1993 | A/IB-3 | — | b | A | I |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 1993 | P/IB-1 | — | a | C | I |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 1993 | NR/IB-4 | — | a | B | III |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 1993 | P/IB-7 | — | a | C | II |
| 13 | South Africa | 1991 | NR/IB-13 | — | a | A | I |
| 14 | Bahrain | 1988 | NR/IB-19 | — | b | A | II |
| 15 | Tanzania | 1992 | NR/IB-22 | TRNG | a | A | II |
| 16 | South Africa | 1990 | NR/IA-8 | — | b | B | V |
| 17 | South Africa | 1991 | NR/IA-5 | — | a | C | II |
| 18 | Gambia | 1989 | NR/IA-1 | — | b | B | IV |
a
PPNG, penicillinase producing N. gonorrhoeae; TRNG, tetracycline resistant N. gonorrhoeae; —, neither PPNG or TRNG.
b
RAPD, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA.