- MCG groups as defined by Zheng et al. [42] including 5 novel MCG groups identified in the present study. Red highlights discriminative SNPs for each SNP profile.
- aReference genome: strain GZ1 (GenBank accession number: CP000837).
- bEpidemic (E) strains (ST7 strains) identified by Zheng et al. [42].
- cUngroupable.
- The following isolates resulted in novel MCG groups with a new SNP profile.
- dMB1158 (cps type 5), MB1497, SS2097 (cps type 9), PP106 (cps type 19), MB1185 (cps type 21), SS921 (nontypeable).
- eMB1629 (cps type 12).
- fHuman pathogen strain (cps type 14).
- gMB 1297 (cps type 31).
- hSS 3919 (cps type 31).