Two novel arginine catabolic mobile elements and staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec composite islands in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotypes ST5-MRSA-V and ST5-MRSA-II | Zendy

Noriko Urushibara | Zendy; Mitsuyo Kawaguchiya | Zendy; Nozomu Kobayashi | Zendy

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Two novel arginine catabolic mobile elements and staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec composite islands in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotypes ST5-MRSA-V and ST5-MRSA-II

Author(s) -

Noriko Urushibara,

Mitsuyo Kawaguchiya,

Nozomu Kobayashi

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dks157

Subject(s) - sccmec , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , staphylococcus aureus , mobile genetic elements , biology , staphylococcal infections , panton–valentine leukocidin , staphylococcus epidermidis , genetics , gene , genome , bacteria

The arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) is a novel staphylococcal genetic island. ACME is located downstream of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec), forming the ACME-SCCmec composite island. Recently, ACME II (located upstream of SCCmec IV) was described from a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain M1 in Denmark (ST8-MRSA-IVa) and 15 MRSA isolates in Ireland (ST22-MRSA-IVh). We report the novel genetic characteristics of the ACME-SCCmec composite islands found in Japanese community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) isolates.

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