Table 1.
Description of Burkholderia isolates and E. coli strains used in this study.
| Bacterial isolate | Isolation date | Species | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| IST419 | 2/26/1998 | B. multivorans | Clinical isolates obtained from a chronically infected patient followed at the Cystic Fibrosis |
| IST439 | 1/30/1999 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | Center of Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal (Cunha et al., 2003; |
| IST4103 | 7/24/2001 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | Coutinho et al., 2011a; Moreira et al., 2016b) |
| IST4110 | 9/25/2001 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4112 | 10/11/2001 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4113 | 11/6/2001 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4116A | 2/11/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4116B | 2/11/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4131 | 2/26/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4129 | 3/26/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4130 | 5/14/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| IST4134 | 7/2/2002 | B. cenocepacia IIIA_ET-12 | |
| ATCC 17616 | B. multivorans | Soil isolate (Berkeley, CA, United States) (Vandamme et al., 1997; Nishiyama et al., 2010) | |
| DH5-α (pRK2013) | E. coli | Helper strain for triparental conjugation (Figurski and Helinski, 1979) | |
| ER2925 (dam- dcm-) | E. coli | Host for plasmids used to transform resilient Burkholderia strains (Craig et al., 1989) |