Table 3.

Isolates with known STs

Sequencing platform	Species	No. of isolates with known STsa	No. of correctly identified STsb
Illumina
Paired-end reads	S. aureus	6	6
	K. pneumoniae	4	4
Single reads	E. coli	6	6
	P. aeruginosa	7	4
Roche 454	E. coli	2	2
	P. aeruginosa	2	2
Ion Torrent	E. coli	2	1

^aDetermined by traditional methods.

^bPredicted by using WGS data.