Use of suppression subtractive hybridisation to extend our knowledge of genome diversity in Campylobacter jejuni

Table 4 Summary of SSH sequence distributions amongst a panel of C. jejuni isolates

	Total	1967-H9 (Cju35)	1967-C2	Cj0264c	629-C10 (Cju05)	629-D8	629-D9	1967-A5	961-A9	670-D7
ST Complex
ST-21	29	0	21 (72%)	26 (90%)	0	0	0	0	3 (10%)	3 (10%)
ST-61	12	0	12 (100%)	12 (100%)	0	0	0	0	12 (100%)	4 (31%)
ST-45	18	18 (100%)	0	14 (78%)	12 (67%)	18 (100%)	17 (94%)	1 (5%)	0	0
ST-42	10	10 (100%)	2 (20%)	10 (100%)	8 (80%)	0	0	10 (100%)	0	0
ST-48	5	0	0	5 (100%)	0	0	0	0	0	0
ST-257	7	7 (100%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Source of isolate
human	36	16 (44%)	13 (36%)	29 (81%)	6 (17%)	4 (11%)	4 (11%)	6 (17%)	6 (17%)	3 (8%)
cattle	24	9 (38%)	13 (54%)	22 (92%)	5 (19%)	4 (17%)	4 (17%)	5 (19%)	8 (33%)	3 (12%)
rabbit	8	3 (38%)	4 (50%)	7 (88%)	3 (38%)	3 (38%)	3 (38%)	0	1 (13%)	0
bird	6	4 (67%)	1 (17%)	3 (50%)	3 (50%)	4 (67%)	4 (67%)	0	0	1 (17%)
badger	3	3 (100%)	0	2 (67%)	3 (100%)	3 (100%)	2 (67%)	0	0	0
sheep	3	0	3 (100%)	3 (100%)	0	0	0	0	0	0
water	1	0	1 (100%)	1 (100%)	0	0	0	0	0	0
total C. jejuni	81	35 (43%)	35 (43%)	67 (83%)	20 (25%)	18 (22%)	17 (21%)	11 (13%)	15 (19%)	7 (8%)
C. coli	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

The number and percentage of isolates carrying each of the subtracted sequences is shown amongst isolates grouped either by MLST clonal complex or source.

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