FISH	Fluorescent in situ hybridization
CLSM	Confocal laser scanning microscopy
PIA	Extracellular polysaccharide intercellular adhesion
CWA	Cell-wall-anchored proteins
MSCRAMM	Microbial surface that recognizes adhesive matrix molecules
clf	Clumping factors
sdr	Serine aspartate repeats proteins
fnBP	Fibronectin-binding proteins
MRSA	Methicillin-resistant S. aureus
MSSA	Methicillin-sensitive S. aureus
icaADBC	Operon-encoded polysaccharide intercellular adhesin
eDNA	Extracellular DNA
MLST	Multilocus sequence type
SCC	Staphylococcal cassette chromosome
PVL	Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-encoding genes (lukF-PV and lukS-PV)
CBA	Columbia blood agar
TSB	Tryptic soy broth
SSmec	Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec
mFUM	Fluid universal medium
CFU	culture forming units
HA	Hydroxyapatite disk
LC-MS	Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
HIFU	High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
DDA	Data-dependent analysis
LIMS	Laboratory information management system
FDR	False discovery rates
GO	Gene ontology
ALS	Agglutinin-like sequence
DLL	Dock, lock and latch mechanism
CH	Collagen hug
Ssp	Streptococcal surface proteins
CBPs	Collagen-binding proteins
PBP2a	penicillin-binding protein 2a