Table 2.

Prediction of aqd gene products from the genomes of clinical isolates of M. abscessus (Rüger et al., 2014; Kehrmann et al., 2016).

Strain (month/year of isolation)	Subspecies	Aqd proteins compared to those of M. abscessusT
P5a (5/2001), P5n (11/2010), P23a, P23n, P28a, P28n	abscessus	Identical
P2a_s, P2a_r, P2n	abscessus	AqdB_G15S
P13, P24 P1a, P1n, P14a, P14n, P15, P25, P26, P30, P31_s, P31_r, P33, P36a, P36n, P38, P39, P41	abscessus	AqdC_R129P_A133T
P10	abscessus	AqdA_G394S, AqdC_R129P_A133T
P4a (12/2002), P4n (3/2007) P6a (8/2007), P6n (10/2011), P29, P32, P3a, P3n, P7a, P7n, P8a, P8n, P11, P16, P17_r, P17_s, P18, P19, P35	massiliense	Absent
P37a, P37n, P40	bolletii	Absent

Strains designated with the same number were isolated from the same patient. Designations set in bold indicate strains analyzed for HHQ and PQS biotransformation (for pairs of strains from the same patient the date of isolation is given in parentheses).