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Table 2 Prevalence of fim2 by specimen type

From: Characterization of a novel chaperone/usher fimbrial operon present on KpGI-5, a methionine tRNA gene-associated genomic island in Klebsiella pneumoniae

 

Totala

fim2+b

Percentagec

Ascitic fluid

9

1

11.1%

Biliary fluid

1

0

0%

Blood

48

8

16.7%

Cerebrospinal fluid

2

0

0%

Environmental

11

1

9.0%

Pyogenic liver abscess aspirates

11

0

0%

Nasopharynx

3

0

0%

Sputum

11

1

9.0%

Unknown

20

4

20.0%

Urine

45

5

11.1%

Wound

1

1

100%

All

162

21

13.0%

  1. a Total number of strains tested.
  2. b Total number of strains testing fim2-positive using primers PR615 and PR616.
  3. c Percentage of fim2-positive strains.