TABLE 1.

16S rDNA similarity values

Organism	% Similarity
	C-29	B. hen-selae	B. eliza-bethae	B. dosh-iae	B. bacilli-formis	B. clar-ridgeiae	B. quin-tana	B. vin-sonii	B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii	B. tay-lorii	B. gra-hamii	Brucella abortus	A. tume-faciens	E. canis
C-29	100.00
B. henselae	99.54	100.00
B. elizabethae	98.78	98.86	100.00
B. doshiae	99.39	99.39	99.24	100.00
B. bacilliformis	98.33	98.17	98.25	98.33	100.00
B. clarridgeiae	98.10	98.10	98.25	98.41	97.49	100.00
B. quintana	98.86	98.63	98.41	98.71	97.73	97.79	100.00
B. vinsonii	99.39	99.39	99.24	99.85	98.33	98.25	98.55	100.00
B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii	99.16	99.16	99.31	99.62	98.17	98.41	98.71	99.62	100.00
B. taylorii	99.09	99.09	99.02	99.70	98.25	98.25	98.79	99.54	99.39	100.00
B. grahamii	99.02	99.16	99.39	99.62	98.17	98.25	98.55	99.62	99.54	99.54	100.00
Brucella abortus	94.89	94.89	95.58	95.50	94.74	95.20	94.74	95.50	95.58	95.50	95.50	100.00
A. tumefaciens	93.99	93.69	93.99	93.99	93.61	93.84	93.46	94.14	94.08	93.84	93.99	93.60	100.00
E. canis	82.84	82.68	82.68	82.68	82.76	82.46	82.76	82.76	82.70	82.61	82.53	82.34	82.24	100.00