TABLE 4.
Genetic and enzyme diversity in strains from different origins
| Isolation sitea | Enzyme
|
Presence of geneb
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staphylolysin
|
Elastase
|
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| Missing | High activity | Molecular mass (kDa)
|
Activity
|
exoU
|
exoS
|
exoT
|
|||||||
| 66 | 97 | Missingc | Low | High | + | − | + | − | + | − | |||
| Keratitis (61) | 3 | 25 | 31 | 29 | 1 | 15 | 46 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 57 | 4 |
| Endophthalmitis (5) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| CLARE (2) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| CLSCaw (4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| CLSCkp (5) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Urine (10) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Ear (10) | 7 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| Blood (10) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Lung (10) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Wound (11) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| Feces (10) | 0 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Environment (7) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Total (145) | 16 | 49 | 46 | 95 | 4 | 57 | 88 | 49 | 96 | 95 | 50 | 134 | 11 |
| % Total | 11 | 34 | 32 | 65 | 3 | 39 | 61 | 34 | 66 | 66 | 34 | 92 | 8 |
a
Number of isolates are in parentheses.
b
+, present; −, absent.
c
Missing activity.