Table 1.
Overview of MRSA clone characteristics, site of isolation, and biofilm formation in static and shear flow assays.
Figure 1.
Box-whisker plot of biofilm formation by MRSA clones in the static assay.
Boxes depict the 95% CI, black horizontal lines the average OD492 value, and the whiskers the OD492 value range (lowest and highest values) for each clone.
Figure 2.
Performance of MRSA clones in the static and shear flow assay.
A) In the static assay: biomass production was subdivided into weak, moderate and strong. B) In the shear flow assay biofilm formation was assessed as positive or negative.
Figure 3.
Live/dead BacLight staining and CLSM on 72-hour old MRSA biofilms under shear flow (Bioflux system).
A) 3-dimensional representations. B) 2-dimensional projections, thin white lines in the xy plane depict the location of the section plane on the z axis. White bars have a length of 10 µm.
Figure 4.
Space occupied by live (green) or dead (red) or total (grey) cells by different epidemic MRSA clones in a biofilm.
Error bars denote standard deviations were calculated using 1 (USA300, EMRSA-15), 2 (USA600, Hungarian/Brazilian, Iberian) or 3 (USA500) independent z-stacks.