Table 2 Clinical and isolate subtype data associated with the major Asc I PFGE clusters identified in this study
Cluster | Gender (no. of cases) M/Fa | Age (no. of cases) >65 ys/totala | Clinical data | Isolate/subtype data | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of pregnancy related cases | Infection typea | Number. of cases with underlying conditiona,b | No. of isolates | Serotype | ST/CCc | ECd | ||||
Septicaemia | Meningitis | |||||||||
2 | 7/5 | 8/12 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 4b | 1 | I |
3 | 5/2 | 3/7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4b | 1 | I |
4 | 6/5 | 5/11 | none | 10 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1/2b | 3 | |
5 | 5/2 | 4/7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4b | 2 | IV |
6 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4b | 4 | |
7 | 1/4 | 4/5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4b | 6 | II |
8 | 2/2 | 2/4 | 2 | 4 | none | 2 | 6 | 1/2a | 29 | |
9 | 5/3 | 3/8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1/2a | 398 | |
8 | 1/2a | 8 | V | |||||||
11 | 12/18 | 26/30 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 1/2a | 38/101 | |
12 | 4/2 | 1/6 | none | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1/2a | 21 | |