Table 2.

Results of RT-qPCR analysis of the Relative Expression (RE) of the abaR and aidA genes (Quorum network genes) in the A. baumannii isolates from colonized patients.

Strain (MLSTa)	abaR (RE)	aidA (RE)
STRAINS OF A. baumannii ISOLATED FROM COLONIZED PATIENTS
Ab 22_GEIH-2010 (ST-52)	0.043	0.042
Ab 38_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.078	0.146
Ab 59_GEIH-2010 (ST-269)	0.081	0.003
Ab 64_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.076	0.213
Ab 77_GEIH-2010 (ST-261)	0.018	0.112
Ab 112_GEIH-2010 (ST-263)	0.112	0.038
Ab 141_GEIH-2010 (ST-264)	0.001	0.010
Ab 177_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.001	0.067
Ab 205_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.131	0.126
Ab 288_GEIH-2010 (ST-263)	0.067	0.199
Ab 290_GEIH-2010 (ST-264)	0.141	0.006
Ab 294_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.123	0.481
Ab 326_GEIH-2010 (ST-2)	0.123	0.015
Ab 354_GEIH-2010 (ST79)	0.052	0.020
Ab 364_GEIH-2010 (ST-79)	0.001	0.081
Ab 399_GEIH-2010 (ST-79)	0.061	0.050
Ab 456_GEIH-2010 (ST-269)	0.368	0.001

The results are expressed as the mean value of the two biological replicates.

^aMLST (Mutilocus Sequence Typing by Pasteur database, https://pubmlst.org/) (Villar et al., 2014). In bold, RE ≤ 0.001 not detected by RT-PCR.