TABLE 5.

Summary of ability of 16S rRNA gene target to identify clinically relevant Actinomycetaceae, Corynebacteriaceae, Micrococcaceae, Microbacteriaceae, Paenibacillaceae, Cellulomonadaceae, Listeriaceae, Intrasporangiaceae (Dermatobactereaceae and Dermatophilaceae), Pseudonocardiaceae, Bacillaceae, Erysipelothrichaceae, Promicromonosporaceae, Dermabacteriaceae, and Brevibacteriaceae

Genus	No. of sequences in the genus MSAa	Total no. of tested positions	No. of identical positions	No. of divergent positions	% Identity
Arcanobacterium	8	1,356	1,235	121	91.08
Arthrobacter	41	1,362	1,079	283	79.22
Bacillus	217	1,419	710	709	50.04
Geobacillus	11	1,500	1,404	96	93.60
Brachybacterium	19	1,397	1,247	150	89.26
Brevibacterium	28	1,406	978	428	69.56
Corynebacterium	93	1,399	944	455	67.48
Cellulosimicrobium	5	1,442	1,377	65	95.49
Curtobacterium	7	1,484	1,094	390	73.72
Erysipelothrix	4	1,512	1,386	126	91.67
Exiguobacterium	16	1,370	1,217	153	88.83
Geobacillus	11	1,500	1,404	96	93.60
Knoellia	5	1,447	1,395	52	96.41
Janibacter	8	1,381	1,306	75	94.57
Leifsonia	11	1,409	1,277	132	90.63
Listeria	12	1,170	1,070	100	91.45
Microbacterium	91	1,277	1,004	273	78.62
Oerskovia	4	1,467	1,460	7	99.52
Paraoerskovia	2	1,477	1,452	25	98.31
Paenibacillus	187	1,310	814	496	62.14
Pseudoclavibacter	5	1,418	1,274	144	89.84
Kocuria	20	1,429	1,212	217	84.81
Trueperella	4	1,446	1,361	85	94.12

^aMSA, multisequence alignment.