TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study

Strain	Characteristic(s) and/or source	MLSTa	Biotypeb	Reference
R652	H. influenzae strain Rd KW20 sequenced by the TIGR	47	IV	10
R3001	H. influenzae bronchoalveolar lavage of patient with cystic fibrosis	ND	II	21a
R2866	Invasive nontypeable H. influenzae; complete genome sequence available at NCBI	99	V	24
R2140	H. influenzae biogroup aegyptius; CDC F3031	ND	III	6
E1a	Hib Eagan	44	I	37
R538	Reference Hib ATCC 9795	ND	I
R1513	P. aeruginosa; ATCC 27853; quality control strain for antibiotic susceptibility testing	NA
	S. aureus; UMCc clinical lab	NA
	S. enterica; UMC clinical lab	NA
	P. mirabilis; UMC clinical lab	NA
	E. fecalis; UMC clinical lab	NA

^aMeats et al. (21). ND, not done; NA, not applicable.

^bHolmes et al. (14) and Kilian (17).

^cUMC, University of Missouri—Columbia.