Table I. Strains and plasmids used in this study.

Strain or plasmid	Relevant characteristics	Source or reference
A. baumannii
ATCC 17978	Reference strain	[74]
ATCC 17978 ΔpglL	O-linked glycosylation negative strain	[14]
SDF	Body lice isolate	[75]
AYE	Human isolate	[75]
ATCC 19606	Reference strain	[76]
1224	Clinical isolate, thigh	[77]
1225	Clinical isolate, coccyx	[77]
1441 C1	MDR Clinical isolate	This study
1441 C3	MDR Clinical isolate	This study
Arg1	MDR Clinical isolate	This study
Arg2	MDR Clinical isolate	This study
A. calcoaceticus 1217	Clinical isolate, urine	[77]
A. calcoaceticus 1218	Clinical isolate, leg	[77]
A. pittii 1219	Clinical isolate, urine	[77]
A. baylyi ADP1	Soil isolate	[78]
A. nosocomialis 1222	Clinical isolate, iscial ulcer	[77]
E. coli
DH5α	General cloning and plasmid propagation	Invitrogen
Plasmids
pEXT20–A1S_1193His10X	Cloning and expression vector, IPTG inducible, Ampr, with A1S_1193 inserted at BamH1 and XbaI	[28]
pEC-A1S_1193His10X	Arabinose inducible, Kmr, plasmid used to express A1S_1193 (Inserted at HincII and SalI) in Acinetobacter for glycan fishing	[28]
pBAVMCS	Kmr pBAV1K-T5-gfp derivative with gfp ORF removed, Constitutive E. coli/Acinetobacter shuttle vector	[10]
pBAVMCS-A1S_1193His10X	Constitutive plasmid, Kmr, used to express A1S_1193 (inserted at BamHI and SalI) in Acinetobacter	This study