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Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021
Research

Precise Species Identification by Whole-Genome Sequencing of Enterobacter Bloodstream Infection, China

Wenjing Wu1, Li Wei1, Yu Feng, Yi Xie, and Zhiyong ZongComments to Author 
Author affiliations: West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (W. Wu, L. Wei, Y. Feng, Y. Zie, Z. Zong); State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Chengdu (W. Wu, Y. Feng, Z. Zong)

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Table 2

Proportion of Enterobacter species recovered from blood in genomic study of Enterobacter bloodstream infection, China

Species* No. (%)
Strains from blood in this study Strains from blood in GenBank
Enterobacter xiangfangensis 21 (43.8) 221 (63.3)
Taxon 1 8 (16.7) 69 (19.8)
E. bugandensis 4 (8.3) 7 (2.0)
E. cloacae 3 (6.3) 4 (1.1)
E. asburiae 2 (4.2) 14 (4.0)
E. roggenkampii 2 (4.2) 7 (2.0)
E. hormaechei 2 (4.2) 0
E. huaxiensis 2 (4.2) 0
E. ludwigii 1 (2.1) 6 (1.7)
E. sichuanensis 1 (2.1) 1 (0.3)
E. chuandaensis 1 (2.1) 0
Taxon 2 1 (2.1) 2 (0.6)
E. kobei 0 10 (2.9)
Taxon 3 0 2 (0.6)
Taxon 4 0 2 (0.6)
Taxon 5 0 1 (0.3)
Taxon 6 0 1 (0.3)
E. chengduensis 0 1 (0.3)
E. mori
0
1 (0.3)
Total 48 (100.0) 349 (100.0)

*Taxons 1–6 represent 6 Enterobacter spp. without assigned names. Their most closely related Enterobacter spp. are listed in Appendix 1 Table 2 and shown in Appendix 1 Figure 1).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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