Open AccessClonal complexes of S taphylococcus aureus : all mixed and together
Author(s) -
Dabul Andrei N.G.,
Camargo Ilana L.B.C.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/1574-6968.12358
Subject(s) - multilocus sequence typing , staphylococcus aureus , clone (java method) , biology , typing , genetics , locus (genetics) , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , gene , bacteria , genotype
In this manuscript, we show that the most important clonal complexes of S taphylococcus aureus , CC 1, CC 5, CC 8, CC 15 and CC 97, are now all connected by eburst when run on the Multi‐locus sequence typing ( mlst ) database. The seven loci suggested for the mlst scheme of S . aureus are not enough to separate the most important clones such as N ew Y ork/ J apan and B razilian E pidemic C lone ( BEC ). They now all belong to the same clonal complex and this may be the time to think about a new way to discriminate them.