A Clonal Complex 12 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain, West Australian MRSA-59, Harbors a Novel Pseudo-SCCmecElement
2015 ◽
Vol 59
(11)
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pp. 7142-7144
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ABSTRACTA West Australian methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusstrain (WA MRSA-59) was characterized by microarray and sequencing. Its pseudo-staphylococcal cassette chromosomemec(SCCmec) element compriseddcs,Q9XB68-dcs,mvaS-SCC,Q5HJW6,dru,ugpQ,ydeM,mecA-mecR-mecI, txbimecI,tnpIS431,copA2-mco(copper resistance),ydhK,arsC-arsB-arsR(arsenic resistance), open reading frame PT43, andper-2. Recombinase genes,xylR(mecR2), and PSM-mec(phenol-soluble modulin) were absent. We suggest thatmeccomplex A should be split into two subtypes. One harbors PSM-mecandxylR(mecR2). It is found in SCCmectypes II, III, and VIII. The second subtype, described herein, is present in WA MRSA-59 and some coagulase-negative staphylococci.
2011 ◽
Vol 55
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pp. 3046-3050
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2015 ◽
Vol 59
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pp. 3669-3671
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