TABLE 2.
MLST loci used in established bacterial MLST schemes also present in M. pneumoniae
| Bacterial species | Presence of MLST locusa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recA | ppa | pgm | gyrB | gmk | glyA | efp | atpA | arcC | adk | |
| Bacillus cereus | ✓ | |||||||||
| Chlamydia trachomatis | ✓ | |||||||||
| Campylobacter jejuni | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Escherichia coli | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Enterococcus faecium | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Haemophilus influenzae | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Helicobacter pylori | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Moraxella catarrhalis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Neisseria meningitidis | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Staphylococcus aureus | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | ✓ | |||||||||
| Streptococcus suis | ✓ | |||||||||
| Vibrio vulnificus | ✓ | |||||||||
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | ✓ | |||||||||
a
MLST loci were chosen based on the frequency of use in other bacterial MLST schemes (http://www.mlst.net/) and the presence of the gene in the published M129 and FH whole genomes.