Table 5.
Chi-square value and P-value calculated for Sporothrix isolates based on the distribution of mating-type alleles.
| Species | No. of isolates | No. of isolates by mating-type |
χ2 | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAT 1-1 (%) | MAT 1-2 (%) | ||||
| S. brasiliensis | 72 | 30 (41.66) | 42 (58.33) | 2.000 | 0.1573 |
| S. brasiliensis (RJ) | 18 | 1 (5.55) | 17 (94.44) | 14.222 | 0.0002 |
| S. brasiliensis (RS) | 11 | 10 (90.90) | 1 (9.09) | 7.364 | 0.0067 |
| S. brasiliensis (NE) | 11 | 1 (9.09) | 10 (90.90) | 7.364 | 0.0067 |
| S. schenckii | 67 | 27 (40.29) | 40 (59.70) | 2.522 | 0.1122 |
| S. globosa | 34 | 26 (76.47) | 8 (23.52) | 9.529 | 0.0020 |
| Overall | 173 | 83 (47.97) | 90 (52.02) | 0.283 | 0.5946 |
RJ: Rio de Janeiro; RS: Rio Grande do Sul; NE: Northeast Brazil (Pernambuco and Ceará States).