TABLE 1.

Comparison of 16S rRNA sequence differences of the patient specimen with those of other members of the Actinomyces genus^a

Species no.	Species	% Difference
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1	A. bovis C867	0.0	13.3	15.1	10.0	13.4	13.7	9.6	17.7	13.9	19.4	15.7	6.8	10.5
2	A. georgiae TS49285		0.0	17.3	13.1	16.6	3.4	15.5	16.7	4.6	14.1	6.5	12.9	13.8
3	A. gerencseriae TS23860			0.0	17.0	9.4	18.7	11.6	19.1	18.7	17.6	18.3	14.0	18.1
4	A. graevenitzii (clinical)				0.0	14.5	13.7	15.0	17.0	13.7	18.1	13.3	11.8	1.3
5	A. israelii TS12012					0.0	17.9	10.8	19.7	18.3	18.1	17.9	12.4	15.7
6	A. meyeri TS35568						0.0	16.6	16.0	2.1	12.5	6.3	13.2	14.4
7	A. naeslundii TS12104							0.0	20.7	16.8	19.8	17.3	5.3	16.1
8	A. neuii TS51849								0.0	16.1	14.8	17.3	18.1	17.8
9	A. odontolyticus TS17929									0.0	13.6	6.1	13.4	14.5
10	A. radingae TS51856										0.0	15.4	18.7	19.0
11	A. turicensis TS51857											0.0	15.2	14.2
12	A. viscosus TS15987												0.0	13.0
13	Patient sample													0.0

^aSpecies numbers were arbitrarily assigned.