TABLE 1 .

Genome characteristics of different APEC O78 isolates

Genome characteristic	Parameter value for the following APEC isolate:
	O78-9 (AC/1) (O78:H19 ST88)	NC20163 (O78:H9 ST23)	χ7122 (O78:H9 ST23)	IMT2125 (O78:H9 ST23)
Length (bp)	5,017,219	4,798,435	4,771,701 (4 contigs, 8 gaps)	4,754,148 (15 contigs, 32 gaps)
G+C content (%)	50.8	50.7	51.6	51.7
No. of genes	4,784	4,589	4,627	4,638
No. of tRNAs	90	88	86	78
No. of rRNAs	22	19	22	8
No. of plasmids	3	2	4	4
Plasmids	pAPEC 789-1 (144,859 bp) = ColV	pAPEC-O78-1 (217,830 bp)	pχ7122-1 (103,275 bp)	pIMT2125-1 (118,067 bp; 2 gaps)
	pAPEC 789-2 (106,397 bp)	pAPEC-O78-2 (113,260 bp)	pχ7122-2 (82,676 bp)	pIMT2125-2 (106,097 bp; 1 gap)
	pAPEC 789-3 (4,500 bp)		pχ7122-3 (56,676 bp)	pIMT2125-3 (4,107 bp)
			pχ7122-4 (4,300 bp)	pIMT2125-4 (1,616 bp)