Draft genomes of Cronobacter sakazakii strains isolated from dried spices bring unique insights into the diversity of plant-associated strains

Table 6 Prevalence and distribution of pESA3 alleles associated with the virulence plasmid and pESA2/pCTU3 plasmids harbored by 26 spice-associated C. sakazakii isolates

No. of C. sakazakii	pESA3/pCTU1 (incFIB, repA)	No. of isolates with the indicated plasmidotype^a
		cpa	T6SS				FHA	Iron acquisition		Other plasmids^b
		cpa	Int L	vgrG	R end	Int R	fhaB	eitA	iucC	pESA2/pCTU2	pCTU3 (incH1)
26	26 (100)	26 (100)	26 (100)	7 (27)	11 (42)	3 (12)	6 (23)	26 (100)	26 (100)	1 (4)	5 (21)

^aNumbers within parentheses are the percentage of PCR-positive strains for each gene locus in relation to the total number of plasmid- harboring spice-associated C. sakazkaii strains
^bOnly 24 strains were analyzed by PCR for presence of pESA2 and pCTU3 (MOD1_788569 and MOD1_O123mB strains were not analyzed). Therefore, the percent positive for pESA2 and pCTU3 were calculated using a total number of 24 strains

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