FIG 5.

Growth phenotypes of select C. tuberculostearicum complex strains in synthetic sweat media. (A) Empirical area under curve comparison of C. tuberculostearicum species complex strains from ribotype A and ribotype B, with biological replicates grouped by color. Strains were grown in Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) + 1% Tween; Sweat media + 0.1% Tween80; Sweat media + 0.1% Tween80 + synthetic lipid mixture. Medium composition is described in further detail in Methods. (B-D) Selected growth curves from a representative experiment plotted with standard error. Ribotype B isolates are shown in shades of blue; Ribotype A isolates are shown in shades of red.