Novel physico-chemical diagnostic tools for high throughput identification of bovine mastitis associated gram-positive, catalase-negative cocci

Table 1 Species and number of strains used for the development of the ANN-assisted FTIR identification system

Species	Training	Validation	Total
Masitis associated Streptococcus spp. and related species
(n = 12)
A. viridans	13	4	17
E. faecalis	22	30	52
E. faecium	11	5	16
L. garvieae	15	2	17
L. lactis	16	7	23
S. agalactiae	18	10	28
S. bovis	14	5	19
S. canis	9	2	11
S. dysgalactiae	21	36	57
S. parauberis	10	1	11
S. pyogenes	16	7	23
S. uberis	26	64	90
Outgroup
(n = 9)
S. equi	5		5
S. gallinarum	1		1
S. gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus	1		1
S. mitis	1		1
S. oralis	1		1
S. pneumoniae	3		3
S. porcinus	1		1
S. sanguinis	3		3
S. suis	3		3
Total	210	173	383

Strains were divided into two subsets, a training set and a validation set (for details see Methods).

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