Table 1.

Bacterial strains used for in silico analysis in this study^a

Species	Strain ID	Biological source	Geographical source	Relevant characteristic	Reference
Bacterial strains used in in silico analysis
C. sakazakii	ATCC BAA-894	Infant	Tennessee, USA		32
C. sakazakii	2151	CSF	United States		This study
C. turicensis	z3032	Blood	Zurich, Switzerland		74
C. malonaticus	LMG 23826	Breast abscess	United States		34
C. dublinensis subsp. dublinensis	LMG 23823	Milk powder production facility	Dublin, Ireland		34
C. dublinensis subsp. lactaridi	LMG 23825	Milk powder production facility	Zimbabwe		34
C. dublinensis subsp. lausennensis	LMG 23824	Water fountain	Lausanne, Switzerland		34
C. universalis	NCTC 9529	Water	London, England		34
C. muytjensii	ATCC 51329	Unknown	Unknown		34
Additional bacterial strains used for experimental analysis
C. turicensis	3032.2A			C. turicensis z3032 cured of pCTU1	23
C. sakazakii	BAA-894.3			C. sakazakii ATCC BAA-894 cured of pESA3	23
C. muytjensii	E488	Unknown	Lausanne, Switzerland	Lacks pESA3-/pCTU1-like plasmid	23, 75
C. muytjensii	E456	Unknown	Lausanne, Switzerland	Lacks pESA3-/pCTU1-like plasmid	23, 75
C. dublinensis subsp. dublinensis	CDC 0743-75	Human, clinical	Wisconsin, USA	Lacks pESA3-/pCTU1-like plasmid	23
C. sakazakii	CDC 9363-75	Unknown	New York, USA	Lacks pESA3-/pCTU1-like plasmid	23
C. muytjensii	CDC 3523-75	Human, clinical	Arizona, USA	Harbors pESA3-/pCTU1-like plasmid	23
Vibrio vulnificus	UNCC913	Unknown	Environmental	Hydroxamate/catechol siderophores	73
E. coli	ESA-C01			E. coli EPI300 fosmid clone containing viuB-shiF and iucABCD-iutA from pESA3	43
E. coli	ESA-M04			E. coli EPI300 fosmid clone lacking viuB-shiF and iucABCD-iutA	43

^aStrain metadata for these and those screened by PCR can be found in PATRN (http://www.patrn.net). ID, identity; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.