Sialic acid utilization by Cronobacter sakazakii

Table 2 Bacterial strains used for laboratory studies of growth on sialic acid and GM1 as sole carbon source

Organism	Strain	Sequence type^a	Source
C. sakazakii	1^b	ST8	Throat
C. sakazakii	5	ST8	Blood
C. sakazakii	658	ST1	Non-infant formula
C. sakazakii	680	ST8	Cerebral spinal fluid
C. sakazakii	696	ST12	Faeces
C. sakazakii	701	ST4	Peritoneal fluid
C. sakazakii	1220	ST4	Cerebral spinal fluid
C. sakazakii	1221	ST4	Cerebral spinal fluid
C. sakazakii	1225	ST4	Blood
C. sakazakii	1231	ST4	Faeces
C. sakazakii	1587	ST4	Cerebral spinal fluid
C. malonaticus	507	ST11	Faeces
C. malonaticus	681^c	ST7	Breast abscess
C. universalis	581	ST54	Water
C. turicensis	564	ST5	Blood
C. turicensis	1211^d	ST19	Blood
C. muytjensii	530	ST49	Powdered infant formula
C. dublinensis	582	ST36	Unknown
C. condimenti	1330^e	ST40	Spiced sausages
Ed. tarda	1926	-	Unknown
Cit. freundii	1927	-	Unknown
Cit. koseri	48	-	Clinical

^a. Sequence type as according to the Cronobacter genus multilocus sequence typing scheme database; http://www.pubMLST.org/cronobacter.
^b.C. sakazakii species type strain (ATCC 29544^T).
^c.C. malonaticus species type strain (LMG 23826^T).
^d.C. turicensis species type strain (LMG 28327^T).
^e.C. condimenti species type strain.