TABLE 1.

Species associations of rplF fragment alleles among 926 Neisseria isolates

Species	No. of isolates	No. of alleles	Allele(s)d	No. of polymorphic sites	No. of fixed differences
N. gonorrhoeae	17	2	5, 7	1	1
N. polysaccharea	12	3	9, 39, 44	10	4
N. meningitidis	804	6	1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 18	12	7
N. oralis	4	4	21, 26, 36, 68	49	42
N. elongata	4	4	15, 37, 60, 75	50	45
“N. bergeri”a	1	1	16	63	63
N. lactamica	15	6	6, 32, 33, 34, 51, 52	65	56
N. cinerea	8	5	10, 19, 20, 45, 74	70	51
N. subflavab	34	14	11, 12, 23, 25, 31, 38, 40, 42, 43, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59	72	49
N. animalis	1	1	76	72	72
N. mucosac	16	12	13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 41, 54	76	36
N. dentiae	1	1	47	82	82
N. canis	1	1	48	102	102
N. wadsworthii	1	1	77	102	102
N. weaveri	1	1	24	102	102
N. bacilliformis	4	2	46, 49	115	111
N. shayeganii	1	1	78	116	116
Neisseria sp. (novel)	1	1	50	120	120

^aStrain originally defined as N. polysaccharea (20), but rMLST shows that it is a distinct novel species (4) which has yet to be validly published.

^bIncludes the previous species N. flavescens.

^cIncludes the previous species N. sicca and N. macacae.

^dAll alleles are compared to allele 7 from type species N. gonorrhoeae.