TABLE 8.

Summary of ability of 16S rRNA gene target to identify clinically relevant Pasteurellaceae, Francisellaceae, Bartonellaceae, Flavibacteriaceae, Neisseriaceae, Porphyromonadaceae, Sutterellaceae, Cardiobacteriaceae, and Leptotrichiaceae

Genus	No. of sequences in the genus MSAa	Total no. of tested positions	No. of identical positions	No. of divergent positions	% Identity
Actinobacillus	17	1,350	1,121	229	83.04
Aggregatibacter	3	1,460	1,351	109	92.53
Bartonella	26	1,382	1,256	126	90.88
Cardiobacterium	2	1,508	1,459	49	96.75
Capnocytophaga	8	1,460	1,219	241	83.49
Haemophilus	13	1,367	1,084	283	79.30
Kingella	5	1,410	1,286	124	91.21
Eikenella	0	0
Pasteurella	12	1,377	1,128	249	81.92
Dysgonomonas	7	1,414	1,203	211	85.08
Paludibacter	2	1,470	1,346	124	91.56
Streptobacillus	5	1,416	1,299	117	91.74

^aMSA, multisequence alignment.