Table 3A.

Polymorphism in the Fragment of the 16S rRNA Gene (A) and groESL Heat Shock Operon

A
			Nucleotide positions 5′→3′a
Gene	Strain/genetic variant	No. of isolate	76	84	165	175	328	GenBank accession number	Host	Country	Reference
16S rRNA	A	12	G	A	A	A	A	JQ965530	Roe deer	Poland	This study
	B	8	G	A	A	C	A	JQ965531	Roe deer	Poland	This study
	A. phagocytophilum strains pathogenic for human		A	G	A	C	T	JN107802	Human	Poland	Welc-Falęciak et al. (2010)
			A	G	A	C	A	AY833407	Human	Poland	Grzeszczuk et al. (2006)
			A	G	A	C	A	GU236658	Human	Slovenia	Scharf et al. (2011)
			A	G	A	C	A	DQ029028	Human	Italy	de la Fuente et al. (2005)
			—	—	G	C	A	GU908492	Human	China	Li et al. (2010)b
			A	G	A	C	A	GU236664	Human	USA	Scharf et al. (2011)

^aThe number corresponds to the positions of nucleotide substitutions relative to the sequence of the complete 16S rRNA gene of A. phagocytophilum strain HZ (NC_007797). Base substitutions are shown in bold.

^bUnpublished, sequence deposited in GenBank.