TABLE 2.

Strains used for repeatability testing

Strain	ATCC no.	No. of repeated tests	Similarity valuesa
L. dumoffii	33279	2	1.0, 0.99
L. longbeachae	43462	3	1.0, 0.99, 0.97
L. lansingensis	49751	3	1.0, 0.98, 0.97
L. birminghamensis	43702	4	1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 0.98
L. feeleii	35849	2	1.0, 0.95
L. anisa	35292	2	1.0, 0.95
L. pneumophila subsp. fraseri	33156	2	1.0, 0.96
L. pnemophila subsp. pascullei	33737	5	1.0, 0.99, 0.98, 0.96, 0.98
L. cincinnatiensis	43753	2	1.0, 0.98
L. fallonii	700992	2	1.0, 0.95
L. gratiana	49413	2	1.0, 0.98
L. parisiensis	700174	2	1.0, 0.96
L. dumoffii	700714	2	1.0, 0.95
L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila	33152	3	1.0, 0.96, 0.95
L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila	43283	2	1.0, 0.99
L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila	43130	3	1.0, 0.99, 0.99
L. pneumophila	BAA-74	3	1.0, 0.99, 0.98
L. pneumophila subsp. pneumophila	35289	6	1.0, 0.95, 0.97, 0.98, 0.97, 0.97
L. cherrii	33252	2	1.0, 0.98
L. moravica	43877	4	1.0, 0.99, 0.97, 0.97
L. jordanis	33623	2	1.0, 0.97
L. quinlivanii	43830	3	1.0, 1.0
L. drosanskii	700990	3	1.0, 0.99
L. hackeliae	35250	2	1.0, 0.99
L. micdadei	33218	2	1.0, 0.98
L. maceachernii	35300	6	1.0, 0.97, 0.98, 0.98, 0.97, 0.98
L. bozemanii	33217	7	1.0, 0.98, 0.98, 0.98, 0.99, 0.99, 0.96
L. londinensis	49505	4	1.0, 0.98, 0.97, 0.96
L. nautarum	49506	2	1.0, 0.98
L. steigerwaltii	35302	2	1.0, 0.99

^aSimilarity values were generated by comparing all runs to the first one with the RiboPrinters proprietary algorithm (see Materials and Methods).