Table 1.
Origin of the animal and food isolates.
Table 2.
Constitution of the different MLVA schemes.
Table 3.
VNTRs and associated oligonucleotide primers.
Figure 1.
Dendrogram of the HARMONY collection using MLVA-16Orsay.
Color coding is according to MLST clonal complex assignment whereas clustering is done according to the displayed MLVA data. Strain Id, clonal complex, sequence type, spa type, spa code and geographic origin are indicated. MLVA cluster bootstrap values are shown for the main clusters.
Figure 2.
Electrophoregrams showing multiplex PCR amplicons resolved by capillary electrophoresis
a. PCR1 ten dye-colored coamplified VNTR loci. b. PCR2 six dye-colored coamplified VNTR loci.
Figure 3.
Congruence of MLVA schemes (MLVA-16Orsay, MLVA-10Orsay, and MLVA-8Bilthoven) and MLST using a Pearson correlation coefficient.
Figure 4.
Minimum spanning tree of the 251 S. aureus isolates using MLVA-16Orsay.
Minimum spanning tree of the 251 S. aureus isolates (106 human-associated isolates, 98 animal-associated isolates and 47 isolates from food products among which 13 were related with food-poisoning) using MLVA-16Orsay. Each circle represents a MLVA genotype. The size of each circle indicates the number of isolates within this MLVA genotype. The different clusters are annotated. The host origin is indicated with a specific color. Isolates involved in food poisoning events are represented by black circles. Human and food isolates are highlighted with two different hatch patterns.