Acetobacter sp. TISTR 102 was obtained from BCRC strain collection, Taiwan, R.O.C.
To the best of our knowledge, none of the named strains is deposited in an international strain collection.
Streptococcus intermedius AC 3105 was obtained from the strain collection of the university Aachen, Germany.
Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CHA0, from our strain collection, was used as positive control.
The 16 carriage strains analyzed in this study were taken from the Bavarian carriage strain collection described in [1] whereas the ten contemporary disease isolates were from the strain collection of the NRZM (Würzburg, Germany) (Table 1).
We used as a gold standard the complete DNA sequences of 89 coding genes from a global strain collection.
These results indicate that type 1 TnPZs are widespread, not unique to our special Amerindian strain collection.
Misleading data might result by randomly selecting an isolate from a strain collection without the associated clinical information.
Exploration of bacterial diversity by MLST requires the use of an appropriate strain collection validated by different genotyping methods.
Retrospective epidemiological studies have identified the earliest isolate of the Mercian strain from 1995 in an archive strain collection.
The strain collection includes 691 emm59 strains of different origins.
