TABLE 3.
Identities (protein level) among tcpF alleles
| Type | % Identity with
typea:
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| II | III | IV | V | I (epidemic) | |
| II | 100 | 33 | 39 | 79 | 66 |
| III | 100 | 33 | 33 | 31 | |
| IV | 100 | 36 | 33 | ||
| V | 100 | 70 | |||
Identities were inferred from DNA sequences of tcpF genes of SCE4 (type II), SCE263 (type III), SCE258 (type IV), and SCE200 (type V). The epidemic (type I) strain used as a reference is 569B.