Table 3. Characteristics of isolates used for construction of DNA library and the calculated gene coverage of each isolate.
| Isolate no. | Country | Hospital | Year | Source | clustera | rpoB genotyping | hsp60 genotyping | PFGE-type | gene coverage (%+/−SDb) | plasmid pQC |
| 31 | NL | 1 | 2002 | wound/sstc | 2 | E. hormaechei | E. hormaechei steigerwaltii | 1 | 58.5+/−2.2 | positive |
| 55 | NL | 1 | 2003 | rectal swab | 2 | E. hormaechei | E. hormaechei steigerwaltii | 1 | 58.5+/−2.2 | positive |
| 48 | NL | 1 | 2002 | urine tract | 2 | E. hormaechei | E. hormaechei oharae | 14 | 56 | negative |
| 19 | NL | 1 | 2003 | pneumonia | 1 | E. hormaechei | E. cloacae III | 15 | 60+/−4 | negative |
| 142 | AUS | 16 | 1997 | wound/sst | 1 | E. hormaechei | E. cloacae III | 17 | 58 | negative |
| 146 | ITA | 20 | 1998 | blood | 2 | E. hormaechei | E. hormaechei oharae | 27 | 60 | negative |
| 104 | NL | 1 | 2003 | rectal swab | 7 | E. cloacae IV | E. cloacae IV | 53 | 56+/−3 | positive |
| 153 | POL | 25 | 1998 | pneumonia | 2 | E. hormaechei | E. hormaechei steigerwaltii | 56 | 62 | negative |
a
Cluster according MLSA results.
b
If replicates are tested the standard deviation is calculated.
c
Wound or skin or soft tissue infection. Abbreviations, Aus; Austria, ITA; Italy, NL; The Netherlands, and POL; Poland.