adeB ST Amino acid at the following polymorphic amino acid positiona
1625 1630 1631 1632 1637 1662 1674 1679 1687 1715 1716 1719 1722 1723 1726 1739 1780 1811
Tunisian strains I (HM002547) V T F A W A N N A S S K S A S V A L
II (HM002548) V P I A W A N N A S S K S A S V A L
III (HM002549) V T F A W A N N T S S K S A T V A L
IV (HM002550) L T F A W A N N T S S K S D S V A L
V (HM002551) V T F T C A N N T S S K S A S V A F
French strains VI (HM002552) V T F T W A N N T S S K S A S A A F
VII (HM002553) V T F T C T Y S T G T Q N D T V V F
VIII(HM002554) V T F T W A N N T S S K S A S V A L
IX (HM046162) V T F T W A N N T S S K S A T V A L
aAligned nucleotide sequences of partial adeB fragments (position 1632 to 2484) according to the numbering of the adeB sequence with EMBL accession no. AF370885
Table 2: Polymorphic amino acid position in 9 adeB STs of A. baumannii strains isolated from Tunisian and French hospitals.