Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Research
Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia spp. Infection in Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Germany, 2011–2012
Table 2
Comparison of the results of P1 and MLVA typing of 87 Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains from patients with community-acquired pneumonia, Germany, 2011–2012
P1 type |
MLVA types (no. strains) |
Subtype 1, n = 51 |
1/4/5/7/2 (3), 2/3/6/6/2, 2/4/5/7/2 (2), 3/3/5/6/2 (2), 3/4/5/5/2 (2), 3/4/5/7/2 (5), 4/4/5/6/2 (2), 4/4/5/7/2 (11), 4/4/6/7/2, 5/3/5/6/2, 5/3/6/6/2, 5/4/5/7/2 (11), 6/3/5/7/2, 6/4/5/7/2 (3), 7/4/5/7/2 (3), 9/4/5/7/2 |
Subtype 2, n = 2 |
5/3/6/6/2 (2) |
Variant 2a, n = 19 |
2/3/5/6/2 (2), 3/3/5/6/2 (6), 4/3/5/6/2 (2), 5/3/5/6/2 (5), 6/3/5/6/2 (2), 6/4/5/6/2, 7/4/5/7/2 |
Variant 2b, n = 8 |
2/3/6/6/2 (4), 5/3/6/6/2 (2), 5/4/6/6/2, 6/3/5/6/2 |
Variant 2c, n = 7 | 3/3/5/6/2 (2), 4/3/5/6/2, 5/3/5/6/2 (3), 6/3/5/6/2 |
*Underlining indicates MLVA types that occur in both subtype 1 and subtype 2/variant 2 strains. MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis.
1Joint senior authors.
2Members of the CAPNETZ Study Group are listed at the end of this article.
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