TABLE 4.

Sequence homology for an 803-bp portion of the tuf gene and Enterococcus-specific PCR products for four enterococcal species and two Abiotrophia species

Species	% of sequence similaritya for:
	A. adiacens	A. defectiva	E. avium	E. faecalis	E. faecium	E. gallinarum
A. adiacens		85	89	89	89	87
A. defectiva	89.8		87	85	86	85
E. avium	92.7	97.1		91	90	90
E. faecalis	92.7	91.3	92.7		89	90
E. faecium	95.7	89.8	91.3	91.3		90
E. gallinarum	94.2	95.7	95.7	95.7	94.2

^aThe numbers in the upper right triangle are the percentage of similarity for the sequenced 803-bp fragment, and those in the lower left triangle represent the percentage of similarity for the 69-bp sequences flanked by the two Enterococcus-specific PCR primers. The similarity scores were obtained by use of the PILEUP program of the GCG software package.