Table 3.

S. haemolyticus strains included in the study

Sample	Country	Isolated from	Year of isolation	ENA IDa	Lab. ID
1	Norway	Blood	1995	ERS066267	25–12
2	Norway	Blood	2004	ERS066284	51–11
3	Norway	Blood	2002	ERS066281	51–08
4	Switzerland	Blood	2001	ERS066398	53–18
5	Germany	Blood	2008	ERS066335	53–73
6b	Switzerland	Wound	2004	ERS066380	53–38
7	Norway	Blood	2004	ERS066295	51–29
8	Switzerland	Blood	2004	ERS066370	53–35
9	Switzerland	Unknown	2006	ERS066381	53–49
10	Switzerland	Blood	2005	ERS066386	53–48
11	Norway	Nasal Swab	2010	ERS066315	54–64
12	Norway	Armpit	2013	ERS3370776	57–01
13	Norway	Groin	2013	ERS3370780	57–12
14	Norway	Armpit	2014	ERS3370802	57–66
15	Norway	Groin	2014	ERS3370809	58–28
16	Norway	Hamstring	2013	ERS3370784	57–22
17	Norway	Groin	2014	ERS3370790	57–33
18	Norway	Groin	2014	ERS3370800	57–61
19	Norway	Groin	2014	ERS3370806	58–08
20	Norway	Unknown	2013	ERS3370815	58–62

Ten clinical and ten commensal S. haemolyticus strains were included in the study. Samples 1–10 are clinical strains and 11–20 are commensal strains

^aENA = European Nucleotide Archive.

^b Strain no. 6 was chosen for bacterial surface protein shaving