Efficient and Specific Detection of Salmonella in Food Samples Using a stn-Based Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method

Table 2

The stn gene sequence similarity values among 77 bacterial strains of Enterobacteriaceae.

Genera	Similarity to
	Klebsiella	Escherichia	Shigella	Enterobacter	Citrobacter	Salmonella enterica
Klebsiella (2)	71.6–100
Escherichia (49)^a	68.3–73.7	89–100
Shigella (8)	67.1–73.0	91.5–98.0	94.9–100
Enterobacter (1)	64.8–67.0	68.1–68.8	67.5–69.2	100
Citrobacter (1)	60.0–63.9	63.4–64.2	63.5–65.2	70.1	100
Salmonella enterica (16)	57.0–60.4	61.6–66.7	63.0–64.5	66.9–67.8	73.2–74.0	96.9–100
Salmonella bongori (1)	57.6–60.4	60.0–66.2	62.6–64.5	67.8	73.9	83.8–84.7

The number in parenthesis is the number of sequences collected from the NCBI database.