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Table 1 Characteristics of the analyzed S. aureus isolates

From: In vivo competition and horizontal gene transfer among distinct Staphylococcus aureus lineages as major drivers for adaptational changes during long-term persistence in humans

Isolate(sourcea)

Month/year of isolation

spa type (repeat pattern)

MLST

t012#95/“early” (T)

08/1995

t012 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24-24)

ST30

t012#97 (T)

12/1997

t012 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24-24)

ST30

t012#00 (T)

04/2000

t012 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24-24)

ST30

t021_2#02 (N)

01/2002

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021#02 (T)

10/2002

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021#04 (N)

07/2004

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021_2#04 (T)

07/2004

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021_2#06 (T)

02/2006

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021_#06 (N)

05/2006

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021#07 (T)

02/2007

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021_2#07 (N)

02/2007

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t021#08 / "late" (S)

10/2008

t021 (15–12–16-02-16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t338#95 (T)

05/1995

t338 (15–21–16-02-25-17-24)

ST30

t331_2#01 (T)

10/2001

t331 (08–16–34-13-17-34-16-34)

ST45

t331#01 (N)

10/2001

t331 (08–16–34-13-17-34-16-34)

ST45

t331#03 (N)

07/2003

t331 (08–16–34-13-17-34-16-34)

ST45

t331#06 (T)

05/2006

t331 (08–16–34-13-17-34-16-34)

ST45

t331#08 (T)

05/2008

t331 (08–16–34-13-17-34-16-34)

ST45

t364#03 (T)

07/2003

t364 (04–34–17-32-17-23-24)

ST3803

t2351III#04 (N)

07/2004

t2351(04–44–44-33-31-12-16-34-16-34-16-12-25-22-22-34)

ST34

t056#06 (T)

08/2006

t056 (04–20–12-17-20-17-12-17-17)

ST101

  1. Isolation month/year and molecular typing results (spa typing and multilocus sequence typing [MLST]) of the analyzed S. aureus isolates. The first (“early”) and the last (“late”) isolate were previously subjected to complete genome sequencing [30]
  2. aN, nasal swab, T deep throat swab, S sputum