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Use of the manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase gene sodA for rapid identification of recently described enterococcal species

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by grants no. MSM6215712402 and MSM0021622416 of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. This study was supported by the project “CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology” (CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068) of the European Regional Development Fund.

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  1. Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Palackeho 1-3, 612 42, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petra Frolkova & Ivan Literak

  2. Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Anuradha Ghosh & Ludek Zurek

  3. Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Tvrdeho 14, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Svec

  4. CEITEC VFU, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1-3, 612 42, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ivan Literak

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Fig. S1

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on the partial sequences (1450 bp) of the 16S rRNA gene showing the relationship among 35 type strains of Enterococcus species. Based on 1000 replications, bootstrap percentages above 50 % are shown. Bar, 5 substitutions per 1000. (DOC 90 kb)

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Percentage similarity based on pairwise comparison of the sodA gene sequences of 20 Enterococcus spp. type strains. (DOC 77 kb)

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Frolkova, P., Ghosh, A., Svec, P. et al. Use of the manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase gene sodA for rapid identification of recently described enterococcal species. Folia Microbiol 57, 439–442 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12223-012-0115-8

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