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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 2

Characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W isolates from 60 patients with invasive meningococcal disease, Chile, 2012*

Characteristic
 Genotype
W:P1.5,2:ST-11, n = 58
 W:P1.5,2–53:ST-11, n = 1
 W:P1.18–1.3:ST-22, n = 1
Clinical outcome† A39.0, n = 12 A39.2, n = 39 Other, n = 7 A39.2, n = 1 A39.0, n = 1
fHbp gene allele
16, n = 1 0 0 0 0 1
19, n = 1 0 1 0 0 0
22, n = 58
 12
 38
 7
 1
 0
PFGE pattern
Cl-Nm-Spe-030, n = 7 1 5 1 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-031, n = 33 5 24 4 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-044, n = 2 0 2 0 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-046, n = 8 2 5 1 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-083, n = 1 0 0 0 0 1
Cl-Nm-Spe-084, n = 3 2 1 0 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-085, n = 2 1 1 0 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-086, n = 1 1 0 0 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-087, n = 1 0 0 1 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-088, n = 1 0 1 0 0 0
Cl-Nm-Spe-100, n = 1 0 0 0 1 0

*PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
†Codes from International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. Clinical outcomes: meningitis (A39.0); meningococcemia (A39.2); Other: Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (A39.1); meningococcemia unspecified (A39.4); other meningococcal infections (A39.8) and nonspecified invasive meningococcal disease (A39.9).

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