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. 2016 Aug 18;4(3):28. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms4030028

Table 2.

Sequencing results and classification of the 16S rRNA gene fragment of pan-Chlamydiales PCR-positive tick samples (n = 35).

Family-Level (≥90%) 1 Genus-Level (≥95%) 1 Species-Level (≥97%) 1
Parachlamydiaceae (n = 24) Parachlamydia (n = 8) Parachlamydia acanthamoebae (n = 2)
Neochlamydia (n = 4) Neochlamydia sp.
Protochlamydia (n = 1) Trut23-12-2015_Venoge-Embouchure
Candidatus Metachlamydia (n = 1) (n = 1)
ND (n = 10) ND (n = 11)
Rhabdochlamydiaceae (n = 3) Rhabdochlamydia (n = 3) Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis strain 15C (n = 2) ND (n = 1)
Criblamydiaceae (n = 3) ND (n = 3)
Waddliaceae (n = 1) ND (n = 1)
Simkaniaceae (n = 1) ND (n = 1)
Chlamydiaceae 0
Unclassified Chlamydiales (n = 3)

1 Taxonomy cutoffs defined by Everett et al. [1]. and applied to classification of CLOs by Pilloux et al. [23]. ND = taxonomic classification could not be determined.