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 2 16S rRNA gene % similarity of Cronobacter species type strains to Cronobacter species and related Enterobacteriaceae.

		C. sakazakii ATCC 29544^T	C. turicensis 3032 LMG 23827^T	C. dublinensis CFS237 LMG 23823^T	C. muytjensii ATCC 51329^T	Cronobacter genomospecies 1 NCTC 9529
C. sakazakii sp.	(44)^§	99.6 ± 0.23²	98.9 ± 0.13	98.9 ± 0.13	98.3 ± 0.19	98.9 ± 0.18
C. turicensis sp.	(8)	98.7 ± 0.08	100.0 ± 0.04	99.5 ± 0.07	98.4 ± 0.07	99.6 ± 0.07
C. dublinensis sp.	(7)	98.7 ± 0.19	99.4 ± 0.14	99.6 ± 0.24	98.4 ± 0.17	99.2 ± 0.17
C. muytjensii sp.	(7)	97.9 ± 0.00	98.4 ± 0.13	98.3 ± 0.15	99.9 ± 0.20	98.7 ± 0.10
Cronobacter genomospecies 1	(2)	98.5 ± 0.00	99.6 ± 0.00	99.1 ± 0.00	98.6 ± 0.00	100.0 ± 0.00
Citrobacter spp.	(5)	96.8 ± 0.46	96.5 ± 0.33	96.5 ± 0.32	97.1 ± 0.44	96.7 ± 0.34
Enterobacter spp.	(24)	96.8 ± 0.04	96.6 ± 0.16	96.4 ± 0.08	97.2 ± 0.12	96.7 ± 0.12

^§number of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences compared. ²mean % similarity of the sequences to the Cronobacter species type strains ± standard deviation.

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