Stayed at 8 mg/l or below 8 mg/l, respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility was determined using the disc diffusion method (Oxoid, Roskilde, Denmark) following the EUCAST guidelines and breakpoints [19,20].Methods EthicsScientific ethical committee approval is not required for this project. We worked with bacteria that were already isolated from blood cultures as part of the standard operating procedures with samples referred to the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark. No material relating to humans was used or stored in this experiment and all person related data were blinded for the researchers. This studies results or the researchers had no influence on any aspects concerning patient care.Adaptation experimentsSix S. purchase RE 640 epidermidis isolates were adapted to triclosan using the gradient plate approach [21]. Initial gradients consisted of zero mg/l at one end of the plate up to 0.025 mg/l or 4 mg/l at the other end depending on the initial MIC of each isolate. After 48 h of incubation, colonies from the leading edge of growth were passed to a new gradient plate with the same concentrations until growth occurred across the entire plate. This process was repeated using doubling increases in triclosan gradients until no further adaptation was possible. The current S. epidermidis isolates, with a high triclosan MIC, were passed repeatedly on plates going up to 4 mg/l as many times as the other isolates were passed. Each isolate was passed in duplicate and with a control passed 1662274 along on TSA plates without triclosan. Colonies from the leading edges from the final gradient plates as well as controls were frozen at 280uC. Furthermore, colonies from the leading edges of each of the adapted isolates were passed on TSA without triclosan for 5 days and then frozen. Adapted isolates, controls and adapted isolates passed for 5 days 
without triclosan were subjected to triclosan susceptibility testing and antibiotic susceptibility testing.Bacterial isolatesA collection of coagulase negative staphylococci isolated 23727046 from blood cultures of Danish patients during 1965 and 66 has been stored in agar sticks at Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark and have stayed untouched since then. From 149 of those old agar sticks isolates could be cultured from 51, and 34 of these isolates were identified as S. epidermidis. These 34 isolates were used as pre-triclosan era controls in relation to triclosan exposure. As comparable isolates, which have been exposed to “the uncontrolled” modern usage of triclosan, 64 S. epidermidis isolates were collected from blood cultures of patients hospitalized in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010?1. We collected these 64 isolates consecutively, until we had 40 methicillin resistant S. epidermidis. After that we continued to collect methicillin susceptible isolates for a total of 24 to increase the diversity of the collection. All isolates were species-identified by MALDI-TOF MS (Bruker Daltonics), S. epidermidis ATCC 12228 (NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_004461.1) was included in the susceptibility tests as control. Isolates were onward stored at 280uC. Tryptic soy broth/agar (TSB/TSA) (Oxoid, Roskilde, Denmark) was used as growth medium unless otherwise stated. All incubations were performed at 37uC atmospheric air.FabI sequencing and MLSTTemplate DNA was prepared by suspending colonies from an MedChemExpress SPDP Crosslinker overnight culture in Milli-Q water, heating at 100uC for 10 minutes, centrifugation at 8000 rpm for to minutes and then.Stayed at 8 mg/l or below 8 mg/l, respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility was determined using the disc diffusion method (Oxoid, Roskilde, Denmark) following the EUCAST guidelines and breakpoints [19,20].Methods EthicsScientific ethical committee approval is not required for this project. We worked with bacteria that were already isolated from 
blood cultures as part of the standard operating procedures with samples referred to the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark. No material relating to humans was used or stored in this experiment and all person related data were blinded for the researchers. This studies results or the researchers had no influence on any aspects concerning patient care.Adaptation experimentsSix S. epidermidis isolates were adapted to triclosan using the gradient plate approach [21]. Initial gradients consisted of zero mg/l at one end of the plate up to 0.025 mg/l or 4 mg/l at the other end depending on the initial MIC of each isolate. After 48 h of incubation, colonies from the leading edge of growth were passed to a new gradient plate with the same concentrations until growth occurred across the entire plate. This process was repeated using doubling increases in triclosan gradients until no further adaptation was possible. The current S. epidermidis isolates, with a high triclosan MIC, were passed repeatedly on plates going up to 4 mg/l as many times as the other isolates were passed. Each isolate was passed in duplicate and with a control passed 1662274 along on TSA plates without triclosan. Colonies from the leading edges from the final gradient plates as well as controls were frozen at 280uC. Furthermore, colonies from the leading edges of each of the adapted isolates were passed on TSA without triclosan for 5 days and then frozen. Adapted isolates, controls and adapted isolates passed for 5 days without triclosan were subjected to triclosan susceptibility testing and antibiotic susceptibility testing.Bacterial isolatesA collection of coagulase negative staphylococci isolated 23727046 from blood cultures of Danish patients during 1965 and 66 has been stored in agar sticks at Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark and have stayed untouched since then. From 149 of those old agar sticks isolates could be cultured from 51, and 34 of these isolates were identified as S. epidermidis. These 34 isolates were used as pre-triclosan era controls in relation to triclosan exposure. As comparable isolates, which have been exposed to “the uncontrolled” modern usage of triclosan, 64 S. epidermidis isolates were collected from blood cultures of patients hospitalized in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010?1. We collected these 64 isolates consecutively, until we had 40 methicillin resistant S. epidermidis. After that we continued to collect methicillin susceptible isolates for a total of 24 to increase the diversity of the collection. All isolates were species-identified by MALDI-TOF MS (Bruker Daltonics), S. epidermidis ATCC 12228 (NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_004461.1) was included in the susceptibility tests as control. Isolates were onward stored at 280uC. Tryptic soy broth/agar (TSB/TSA) (Oxoid, Roskilde, Denmark) was used as growth medium unless otherwise stated. All incubations were performed at 37uC atmospheric air.FabI sequencing and MLSTTemplate DNA was prepared by suspending colonies from an overnight culture in Milli-Q water, heating at 100uC for 10 minutes, centrifugation at 8000 rpm for to minutes and then.