Volume 8, Number 5—May 2002
Research
Clonal Groupings in Serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis
Sébastien Gagneux*†, Thierry Wirth‡, Abraham Hodgson†, Ingrid Ehrhard§, Giovanna Morelli‡, Paula Kriz¶, Blaise Genton*, Tom Smith*, Fred Binka†, Gerd Pluschke*
, and Mark Achtman‡
, and Mark Achtman‡Table
Multilocus sequence typing results of two serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis clonal groupings
| ST | Allele numbers | Country (no. of isolates) | Year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbcZ | Adk | aroE | FumC | gdh | pdhC | Pgm | |||
| 24 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 5 | Netherlands (1), United States (1) | 1986, 1993 |
| 750 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 5 | United Kingdom (2), Germany (1) | 1998-1999 |
| 181 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 41 | 31 | Mali (6), Chad (1), Niger (2), Ghana (1) | 1970-2000 |
| 182 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 5 | 41 | 31 | Mali (4) | 1970 |
| 751 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 41 | 6 | Burkina Faso (3), Ghana (12) | 1996-2000 |
