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Table 3 The efficiency and r 2 -value results from laboratory evaluation of the BactQuant assay using genomic DNA from ATCC strains and clinical isolates belonging to 106 unique bacterial species spanning eight bacterial phyla

From: BactQuant: An enhanced broad-coverage bacterial quantitative real-time PCR assay

Species Name

Reaction efficiency

r2-value

Streptomyces violaceoruber

93%

>0.999

Mycobacterium abscessus

110%

>0.999

Mycobacterium bovis

106%

>0.996

Mycobacterium chelonae

101%

>0.999

Mycobacterium gastri

104%

>0.999

Mycobacterium gordonae

104%

>0.999

Mycobacterium fortuitum

93%

>0.999

Mycobacterium kansasii

107%

>0.999

Mycobacterium marinum

110%

>0.990

Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum

101%

>0.999

Mycobacterium phlei

104%

>0.999

Mycobacterium smegmatis

105%

>0.999

Mycobacterium vaccae

120%

>0.999

Mycobacterium xenopi

112%

>0.999

Bacteroides ureolyticus

92%

>0.999

Bacteroides fragilis

82%

>0.993

Chlamydia trachomatis

N/A

N/A

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

N/A

N/A

Thermus thermophilus

97%

>0.999

Clostridium difficile

88%

>0.987

Listeria monocytogenes

104%

>0.999

Staphylococcus arlettae

96%

>0.998

Staphylococcus capitis

95%

>0.993

Staphylococcus cohnii

104%

>0.999

Staphylococcus epidermidis

96%

>0.999

Staphylococcus equorum

85%

>0.997

Staphylococcus hominis

108%

>0.999

Staphylococcus haemolyticus

90–104%

>0.999

Staphylococcus kloosii

98%

>0.999

Staphylococcus lugdunensis

94%

>0.999

Staphylococcus saprophyticus

87–98%

>0.999

Staphylococcus xylosus

81–100%

>0.999

Streptococcus agalactiae

98%

>0.998

Streptococcus pneumoniae

98%

>0.999

Streptococcus viridans

103%

>0.999

Enterococcus faecium

91–111%

>0.999

Enterococcus faecalis

90–100%

>0.998

Fusobacterium nucleatum

90%

>0.999

Burkholderia pseudomallei

103%

>0.999

Coxiella burnetti*

100%

>0.998

Francisella tularensis

100%

>0.999

Legionella pneumophila

98%

>0.999

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

95%

>0.997

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

90–100%

>0.999

Pseudomonas mendocina

93%

>0.999

Pseudomonas andersonii

90%

>0.999

Pseudomonas otitidis

93%

>0.999

Pseudomonas stutzeri

86%

>0.999

Pseudomonas monteilii

88%

>0.999

Pseudomonas azotofixans

84%

>0.999

Pseudomonas mosselii

92%

>0.999

Pseudomonas luteola

91%

>0.999

Pseudomonas putida

90%

>0.999

Pseudomonas fluorescens

96%

>0.999

Pseudomonas taetrolens

89%

>0.999

Pseudomonas fragi

93%

>0.999

Pseudomonas syringae

95%

>0.999

Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes

93%

>0.999

Pseudomonas lundensis

93%

>0.999

Pseudomonas anguiliseptica

93%

>0.999

Cellvibrio gilvus

92%

>0.999

Acinetobacter baumannii

100–105%

>0.999

Arsenophonus nasoniae

87%

>0.998

Budvicia aquatica

88%

>0.999

Buttiauxella gaviniae

107%

>0.999

Cedecea davisae

97%

>0.999

Citrobacter freundii

95%

>0.999

Cronobacter sakazakii

96%

>0.999

Edwardsiella tarda

106%

>0.999

Enterobacter cloacae

89–111%

>0.999

Enterobacter aerogenes

107%

>0.998

Escherichia vulneris

93%

>0.999

Escherichia coli

91–96%

>0.999

Ewingella americana

97%

>0.999

Haemophilus influenzae

91–110%

>0.999

Hafnia alvei

93%

>0.999

Klebsiella oxytoca

93%

>0.999

Klebsiella pneumoniae

95–100%

>0.999

Kluyvera ascorbata

100%

>0.999

Leclercia adecarboxylata

93%

>0.999

Leminorella richardii

94%

>0.999

Moellerella wisconsensis

93%

>0.999

Moraxella catarrhalis

91–106%

>0.999

Morganella morganii

95%

>0.999

Obesumbacterium proteus

114%

>0.994

Pantoea agglomerans

93%

>0.999

Pectobacterium atrosepticum

90%

>0.999

Photorhabdus asymbiotica

96%

>0.999

Plesiomonas shigelloides

93%

>0.999

Pragia fontium

100%

>0.998

Proteus mirabilis

98%

>0.999

Providencia rustigianii

93%

>0.999

Rahnella aquatilis

92%

>0.999

Raoultella ornithinolytica

94%

>0.999

Salmonella enterica

101%

>0.999

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar gallinarum

95%

>0.998

Serratia liquefaciens

94%

>0.999

Shigella dysenteriae

98%

>0.999

Tatumella ptyseos

101%

>0.999

Trabulsiella guamensis

95%

>0.999

Yokenella regensburgei

96%

>0.999

Yersinia enterocolitica

98%

>0.999

Campylobacter jejuni

89%

>0.999

Vibrio cholerae

85%

>0.996

Borrelia burgdorferi

90%

>0.999

Treponema denticola

82%

>0.999

  1. *No 16 S rRNA gene sequence available in the Ribosomal Database Project.