The taxonomy of Enterobacter sakazakii: proposal of a new genus Cronobacter gen. nov. and descriptions of Cronobacter sakazakii comb. nov. Cronobacter sakazakii subsp. sakazakii, comb. nov., Cronobacter sakazakii subsp. malonaticus subsp. nov., Cronobacter turicensis sp. nov., Cronobacter muytjensii sp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis sp. nov. and Cronobacter genomospecies 1

Table 1 DNA-DNA % relatedness of Cronobacter strains (in 2 × SSC + 5% formamide at 70°C)

	C. sakazakii ATCC 29544^T	C. sakazakii ATCC 12868	C. turicensis 3032 (LMG 23827^T)	C. muytjensii ATCC 51329^T	C. dublinensis NCTC 9844
C. sakazakii ATCC 12868	70.0 (2.4)^§
C. turicensis 3032 (LMG 23827^T)	51.8 (2.8)	51.9 (2.6)
C. muytjensii ATCC 51329^T	53.3 (3.0)	42.0 (4.0)	56.0 (4.2)
C. muytjensii CDC 3523-75	37.7 (1.8)	31.3 (6.2)		91.9 (4.9)
C. dublinensis NCTC 9844	16.7 (7.6)	43.0 (9.8)	36.8 (2.2)	54.5 (4.7)
C. dublinensis CDC 5960-70	37.3 (0.0)	54.8 (2.1)			77.4 (7.5)
Cronobacter genomospecies 1 NCTC 9529	55.5 (1.0)	54.4 (3.9)	55.0 (3.3)	53.1 (6.6)	45.9 (2.0)

^§% relatedness values are averages of duplicate measurements and standard deviations are given in parentheses (values can be reproduced in a range of about 10%).

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