How should the phylogenetic tree on a report be interpreted?
The phylogenetic tree is a way of visualizing the genetic distance between your isolate and its 10 closest matches. The distance measurement only tells you how your isolate compares to its closest matches, not how all of the matches are related to each other. In order to make an accurate identification, the distance measurement, and the branching order and configuration of the phylogenetic tree are taken into account.
