TABLE 1.

Characteristics of the eight M. pneumoniae clinical isolates and strains selected for whole-genome sequencing

Isolate/strain	Year of isolation	Specimen	Susceptibility to macrolidesa	Geographical origin	MLVA-5 typeb	P1 gene type
B1145	1994	Cerebrospinal fluid	WT	Brest/France	P	1
B3996	2005	Respiratory tract	R	Bordeaux/France	N	1
B4560	2007	Respiratory tract	WT	Bayonne/France	E	1
M2285	1995	Pericardial fluid	WT	Madrid/Spain	E	1
J382	2000-2003	Respiratory tract	R	Japan	P	1
F59	Unknown	Respiratory tract	WT	Germany	V	2a
B3896	2005	Respiratory tract	WT	Bordeaux/France	S	2-related variantc
FH (ATCC 15531)	1954	Respiratory tract	WT	Boston, MA/USA	T	2

^aWT, wild type; R, resistant.

^bAccording to Dégrange et al. (15).

^cDescribed by Pereyre et al. (48).