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Table 1 Summary of Cronobacter isolates in the Cronobacter PubMLST database

From: Cronobacter, the emergent bacterial pathogen Enterobacter sakazakii comes of age; MLST and whole genome sequence analysis

Species

Number of strains (%)

Number of STsa

Number of genomes

Earliest isolate

Countries

Source

Clinical

Infant formula

Food and ingredients

Environment

Other

C. sakazakii

726 (72.1)

155

73

1950

33

19.8b

23.8

32.8

16.3

7.3

C. malonaticus

136 (13.5)

53

14

1973

17

36.0

16.2

36.8

7.4

3.7

C. dublinensis

59 (5.9)

44

9

1956

11

5.1

13.6

47.5

6.8

27.1

C. turicensis

41 (4.1)

26

6

1970

12

17.1

12.2

36.6

22.0

12.2

C. muytjensii

35 (3.5)

14

2

1988

10

2.9

28.6

45.7

2.9

20.0

C. universalis

9 (0.9)

5

2

1956

6

11.1

0.0

55.6

11.1

22.2

C. condimenti

1 (0.1)

1

1

2010

1

0

0

100

0

0

Total

1007

298

107

 

36

20.4c

21.6

14.2

35.1

8.7

  1. aSequence type.
  2. bPercentage of species total.
  3. cPercentage of genus total.