TABLE 3.

Cellular fatty acid analysis of three strains of a bacillary Neisseria sp., with comparison to N. elongata subsp. elongata

Fatty acid	% of indicated fatty acid in strain
	MDA2833	MDA0990	MDA1552	N. elongata subsp. elongataa
11:0	0.42
12:0	6.97	5.09	7.65	5.96
12:0 3OH	5.45	4.00	6.45	4.17
Unknown	0.44		0.41
14:0	2.43	2.74	1.56	4.73
15:0	0.76	0.29	0.58
12:0 aldehyde	3.57	3.25	5.07	1.57
16:1 ω7c/16:1 ω6c	20.77	23.22	16.35	27.50
16:0	26.40	29.68	30.31	36.92
17:1 ω8c	0.29	0.19	0.00
17:0	0.38	0.20	0.45
17:1 iso I/ante iso B				3.25
16:0 3OH	0.64	0.72	0.73
18:0 ante/18:2 ω6,9c	4.28	4.02	1.98
18:1 ω9c	3.97	3.53	1.66	2.43
18:1 ω7c	20.73	21.41	24.50	11.07
18:0	2.25	1.45	2.30	1.78
20:4 ω6,9,12,15c	0.26	0.23
Total	100.01	100.02	100.00	99.38
Similarity index (out of 1.000), organism	0.678, N. flavescens	0.808, N. weaveri	0.558, N. elongata	Not applicable
	0.652, N. polysaccharea	0.649, N. polysaccharea	0.522, N. weaveri
	0.638, N. weaveri	0.528, N. flava
Interpretation	Neisseria sp.	N. weaveri	Neisseria sp.	N. elongata

^aData are averages of multiple runs in the MIDI database. (courtesy of Microbial ID, Inc., Newark, DE). Figures in bold represent major peaks.