In addition, we found that the pulsotype of strain A803355 (reported previously as H1) was identical to pulsotype A1, the most representative pulsotype among tested strains.
Most of the strains are inferred to have mixed ancestry, and the strains that are most representative of the population (>80% ancestry) combine previously separated populations (Liti et al. 2009) of West Africa and Malaysia, two populations that are also separated on our tree.
In addition, allicin can enhance the fungicidal activity of amphotericin B, the most representative antifungal antibiotic, against these yeast strains (Ogita et al. 2006; Borjihan et al. 2009).
Here we show that AZM has potent bactericidal activity against representative strains of the most fearsome MDR-GNRs when tested in eukaryotic cell media (+/− human serum) and in vivo murine models of infection.
In this study, we generated genome sequences of 57 S. mutans isolates, as well as representative strains of the most closely related species to S. mutans (Streptococcus ratti, Streptococcus macaccae, Streptococcus criceti), to identify the overall structure and potential adaptive features of the dispensable and core components of the genome.
For each spoligotype group, an isolate which possessed the most common VNTR profile was selected, so that each chosen strain was the most representative of each spoligotype group (Table 1).
The highly leukotoxic JP2 strain was the most representative (60%% of the positive specimens); the samples from periodontal pockets and from saliva showed some ltx genotype for the same patient.
We selected 8 representative strains from our 5 most common morphospecies isolated from cucumber leaves as endophytes, and 13 strains isolated from the fungal gardens as non-symbiont fungi, to identify the most common morphotypes present in the leaves and gardens.
The synbiotic preparation included strains of Bifidobacterium longum W11, one of the most representative species of gut microbiota, and oligosaccharides, which exert a positive effect on intestinal motility and favor the development of bifidobacteria in the gut lumen [ 85].
Another difficulty is to select representative strains in vaccine design to provide cross-protection against most circulating virus strains.
