TABLE 1.

Relatedness criteria used for the cgMLST schemes for clinically relevant bacteria.

Species	Relatedness threshold cgMLST alleles	References
Acinetobacter baumannii	≤8	Higgins et al., 2017
Campylobacter coli, C. jejuni	≤14	Cody et al., 2013; Llarena et al., 2017
Enterococcus faecium	≤20	de Been et al., 2015
Escherichia coli	≤10	Dekker and Frank, 2016
Klebsiella pneumoniae	≤10	Snitkin et al., 2012
Salmonella enterica	≤4	Vincent et al., 2018
Staphylococcus aureus	≤24	Bartels et al., 2015