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Table 1 MLST analysis of FBI-Zoo Campylobacter strain collection

From: Closely related Campylobacter jejuni strains from different sources reveal a generalist rather than a specialist lifestyle

Number of strains

473

   - C. jejuni

300

   - C. coli

173

Source (C. jejuni/C. coli)

 

human patients

134 (117/17)

Animals

210 (90/120)

Food

129 (93/36)

MLST

 

Number of STs in dataset

197

   - occurring in multiple strains

76

   - singletons

121

novel STs

57

novel alleles

19

10 most frequent C. jejuni STs

no. of strains per ST (percent) strains from animals/food/human patients

ST-50

34 (11.3%) 9/5/20

ST-21

27 (9.0%) 6/11/10

ST-572

13 (4.3%) 1/7/5

ST-45

12 (4.0%) 3/4/5

ST-48

9 (3.0%) 2/3/4

ST-1073

8 (2.7%) 2/2/4

ST-61

7 (2.3%) 1/3/3

ST-257

7 (2.3%) 2/1/4

ST-5408

7 (2.3%) 7/0/0

ST-5411

7 (2.3%) 7/0/0

10 most frequent C. coli STs

no. of strains per ST (percent) strains from animals/food/human patients

ST-854

15 (8.7%) 14/0/1

ST-1117

11 (6.4%) 11/0/0

ST-5411

7 (4.0%) 7/0/0

ST-825

6 (3.5%) 4/2/0

ST-1628

6 (3.5%) 2/1/3

ST-829

5 (2.9%) 2/3/0

ST-3016

5 (2.9%) 1/3/1

ST-5372

5 (2.9%) 5/0/0

ST-5379

4 (2.3%) 4/0/0

ST-1556

4 (2.3%) 4/0/0

Standardized Index of Association (sIA)

 

all strains

0.45

C. coli only

0.07

C. jejuni only

0.45

eBURST V3 analysis

 

No. of groups (strains included)

19 (385)

singleton strains

88