TABLE 3.
Levels of 16S rDNA sequence similarity among R. eutropha sequences and C IV-2 sequencesa
| Strain sequence | % Similarity
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1. FRA01 | |||||||||
| 2. JHH | 100 | ||||||||
| 3. R. eutropha IAM12368 | 97.0 | 97.0 | |||||||
| 4. R. eutropha sp. strain CT12 | 97.3 | 97.3 | 95.3 | ||||||
| 5. R. eutropha | 98.9 | 98.9 | 97.2 | 97.6 | |||||
| 6. R. eutropha sp. strain CT14 | 97.8 | 97.8 | 96.9 | 96.3 | 98.3 | ||||
| 7. R. eutropha DSM2839 | 98.7 | 98.1 | 95.6 | 96.4 | 97.3 | 96.3 | |||
| 8. R. eutropha DS185 | 97.1 | 97.1 | 96.2 | 95.5 | 97.6 | 99.1 | 95.5 | ||
| 9. R. eutropha CH34 | 97.8 | 97.8 | 95.3 | 96.2 | 97.0 | 96.0 | 97.5 | 96.3 | |
| 10. R. eutropha ATCC 17697 | 97.8 | 97.8 | 98.8 | 96.4 | 98.2 | 97.7 | 96.5 | 97.0 | 96.2 |
a
R. eutropha sequences (no. 3 to 10) obtained from GenBank; FRA01, sequence of clinical isolates and type strains; JHH, sequence obtained by Osterhout et al. (17).