TABLE 1.
Matrix of uncorrected percent similarity on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons
| Species | % Similaritya
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| Hco | Hca | Hpu | Hhe | Hci | Hch | Hms | Htr | Hmu | Hpy | Hfl | Hfe | |
| H. colifelis | 100 | 98.3 | 96.6 | 96.7 | 96.5 | 96.3 | 95.0 | 95.6 | 94.9 | 93.4 | 93.2 | 92.5 |
| H. canis | 96.2 | 97.4 | 98.1 | 96.7 | 95.9 | 96.3 | 96.7 | 94.1 | 93.3 | 96.0 | ||
| H. pullorum | 96.1 | 95.3 | 96.8 | 94.7 | 96.2 | 95.4 | 95.2 | 94.6 | 96.3 | |||
| H. hepaticus | 96.5 | 96.4 | 95.7 | 97.0 | 97.9 | 93.9 | 93.5 | 95.8 | ||||
| H. cinaedi | 95.4 | 94.2 | 96.0 | 96.2 | 93.2 | 92.8 | 96.0 | |||||
| H. cholecystus | 96.6 | 95.8 | 96.3 | 94.5 | 94.2 | 95.7 | ||||||
| H. mustelae | 95.4 | 95.2 | 93.5 | 93.2 | 95.2 | |||||||
| H. trogontum | 96.5 | 93.0 | 92.7 | 96.3 | ||||||||
| H. muridarum | 93.1 | 92.8 | 95.5 | |||||||||
| H. pylori | 95.7 | 93.9 | ||||||||||
| H. felis | 93.7 | |||||||||||
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Abbreviations: Hco, H. colifelis; Hca, H. canis; Hpu, H. pullorum; Hhe, H. hepaticus; Hci, H. cinaedi; Hch, H. cholecystus; Hms, H. mustelae; Htr, H. trogontum; Hmu, H. muridarum; Hpy, H. pylori; Hfl, H. felis; Hfe, H. fennelliae.