Table 1.

Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the 50 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates recovered from healthy donkeys in Tunisia

Number of isolates	spa typea	MLSTa b	CCb	agr type	enterotoxin genes detectedc d	Other toxin genes detectedc	Phenotype of antibiotic resistancec,e	Resistance genes detectedc
14	t1166	ST133	CC133	I	see1, sei1, ser10	hla, hlb11, hld, lukED	E2-FA3	erm(A)2
2	t7718	ST133	CC133	I	see1, ser	hla, hld, lukED
1	t2420	ST133	CC133	I	seq, ser	hla, hld, lukED	E-FA	erm(A)
1	t1403	ST133	CC133	I	ser	hla, hlb, hld, lukED	P-E-S-FA	blaZ, erm(A)
1	t8836	ST133	CC133	I		hla, hlb, hld, lukED
1	t3583	ST133	CC133	I	seh	hla, hlb, hld, lukED
1	t4735	ST2150	CC133	I	ser	hla, hlb, hld, lukED
1	t8837	ST2111	CC133	I	sei, ser	hla, hlb, hld, lukED
4	t127	ST1738	CC1	III	sea1, seb1, see1, sek1, seh, seq1, ser3	tst1, hla, hlb, hld, lukED,	P2-FA1	blaZ2, fusC1
1	t1784	ST1	CC1	III	seh, ser	hla,hlb,hld lukED
1	t7720	ST1	CC1	III	seh, ser	hla, hld, lukED	P-E-CP-FA	blaZ, erm(A)
1	t3896	ST1	CC1	III	sea, see, seh, sek, seq	hla, hld, lukED	P-FA	blaZ
4	t701	ST6	CC6	I	sea3, see2, sed2, ser3	tst1, hla, hlb1, hld, lukED	P-E1-S1-FA1	blaZ, erm(A)1, erm(C)1
1	t8840	ST6	CC6	I	seh, seq, ser	hla, hlb, hld, lukED	P	blaZ
4	t166	ST2057	CC522	I	sec1, sej2, sel1, ser2	tst1, hla, hlb, hld, lukED, lukM	E3-C1-FA3	erm(A)3, erm(C)1
2	t7717	ST72	CC72	I	[seg, sei, sem, sem, seo, seu]1, see1, sel	hla, hlb, hld, lukED
1	t7721	ST72	CC72	I	[seg, sei, sem, sem, seo, seu], sec, sel	hla, hld, lukED
1	t091	ST2110	CC7	I	ser	hla, hld, lukED	P-TE-CP	blaZ, tet(M)
1	t593	ST15	CC15	II	ser	hla, hld, lukED
1	t4781	ST2181	CC22	I	[seg, sei, sem, sem, seo, seu], ser	tst, hla, hld, hlg	P	blaZ
2	t2484	ST2151	Singleton	II	[sem, sen, sei, seu]1,sec, sel, sem1	tst1, hla, hlb, hld
1	t1736	ST2109	Singleton	IV	[sem, sen, sei]	hla, hlb, hld, lukED
1	t3043	ST1660	Singleton	II	[sem, sen, sei, seu], sec, sel, ser	tst, hla, hlb, hld	E	erm(A)
1	t8449	ST350	Singleton	I	[sem, sen, sei, seu]	hla, hlb, hld
1	t8842	ST2152	Singleton	IV	sej	etb, hla, hlb, hld, lukED

^a New spa-types or sequence types detected are shown in bold.

^b The MLST was performed in one isolate of each spa-type and the corresponding ST and CC were assumed for all isolates presenting the same spa-type.

^c In some cases, not all the isolates of the group presented the indicated characteristics (genes or phenotype). Whenever happened, the number of isolates with this characteristic is indicated in superscript.

^d Genes normally physically linked that compound the different egc clusters are included in brackets.

^e P: penicillin; E: erythromycin; TE: tetracycline; S: streptomycin; CP: ciprofloxacin; C: chloramphenicol; FA: fusidic acid.