Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010
Dispatch
Multispacer Typing of Bartonella henselae Isolates from Humans and Cats, Japan
Masashi Yanagihara
, Hidehiro Tsuneoka, Motoki Sugasaki, Junzo Nojima, and Kiyoshi Ichihara
, Hidehiro Tsuneoka, Motoki Sugasaki, Junzo Nojima, and Kiyoshi Ichihara
Table
Multispacer typing of 56 Bartonella henselae strains isolated from humans and cats, Japan*
| B. henselae source | Genotypes | 16S rRNA genotype |
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. human |
No. cat |
S1 |
S2 |
S3 |
S4 |
S5 |
S6 |
S7 |
S8 |
S9 |
MST |
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| 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | I | |
| 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | I | |
| 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | I | |
| 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 32 | I | |
| 2† | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33 | I | |
| 9ठ| 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 35 | I | |
| 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 51 | I | |
| 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 52 | II | |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 53 | I | |
| 1¶ | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 54 | I | |
| 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 55 | I | |
| 0 | 3 | 7 + 4# | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 56 | I | |
| 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 57 | I | |
*MST, multispacer typing; I, 16S type I; II, 16S type II.
†Includes a clinical specimen isolated from a patient with hepatic granuloma.
‡Includes B. henselae strain isolated from a patient with endocarditis.
§Includes a clinical specimen isolated from a patient with bacteremia.
¶Includes a clinical specimen isolated from a patient with splenic granuloma.
#Strain with 2 different copies of intergenic spacer S1 in its genome.
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