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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Neisseria meningitidis ST-11 Clonal Complex, Chile 2012

Pamela Araya, Jorge FernándezComments to Author , Felipe Del Canto, Mabel Seoane, Ana B. Ibarz-Pavón, Gisselle Barra, Paola Pidal, Janepsy Díaz, Juan C. Hormazábal, and María T. Valenzuela
Author affiliations: Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile (P. Araya, J. Fernández, M. Seoane, G. Barra, P. Pidal, J. Díaz, J.C. Hormazábal, M.T. Valenzuela); Universidad de Chile, Santiago (F. Del Canto); Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA (A.B. Ibarz-Pavón)

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Table 1

Clonal complexes and sequence types identified in main serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis isolated in Chile, 2012*

Serogroup, clonal complex
 No. (%) isolates
 Sequence type
B, n = 38
ST-32 17 (44.7) NA
13 32
2 3822
1 7780
1 9918
ST-41–44 20 (52.6) NA
14 44
1 315
1 8528
2 9233
1 9354
1 10127
ST-461 1 (2.6) NA
1
 461
W, n = 60
ST-11 59 (98.3) NA
51 11
7 1025
1 2961
ST-22 1 (1.7) NA
1 184

*NA, not applicable.

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