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. 2019 Mar 22;85(7):e00165-19. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00165-19

TABLE 4.

Summary of Shigella WGS validation sets used in this studya

Strain designation (molecular) No. of strains No. of serotypes included Prediction accuracy, no. of strains (%)
80% length coverage
50% length coverage
Species Serotype Species Serotype
S. boydii 90 19 79 (87.7) 76 (84.4) 87 (96.7) 87 (96.7)
S. dysenteriae 74 13 72 (97.3) 72 (97.3) 74 (100) 74 (100)
S. flexneri 87 15 87 (100) 82 (88.9) 87 (100) 84 (96.6)
S. sonnei 93 1 92 (98.9) 92 (98.9) 92 (98.9) 92 (98.9)
Shigella subtotal 344 49 330 (95.9) 322 (93.6) 340 (98.8) 337 (98.0)
EIEC 14 14 (100) 14 (100)
Non-Shigella/EIEC 22 22 (100) 22 (100)
Overall 380 366 (96.3) 373 (98.2)
a

Strains were sequenced from an in-house collection of 62 clinical isolates and 33 reference strains (n = 95), or their WGSs were downloaded from the NCBI (n = 255).