Open AccessMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus argenteus misidentified as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerging in western Sweden
Author(s) -
Erika Tång Hallbäck,
Nahid Karami,
Ingegerd Adlerberth,
Sofia Cardew,
Maria Ohlén,
Hedvig E. Jakobsson,
Liselott Svensson Stadler
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.000760
Subject(s) - staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , staphylococcus , whole genome sequencing , genome , gene , genetics , bacteria
Two strains included in a whole-genome sequencing project for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were identified as non- Staphylococcus aureus when the sequences were analysed using the bioinformatics software ALEX (www.1928diagnostics.com, Gothenburg, Sweden). Sequencing of the sod A gene of these strains identified them as Staphylococcus argenteus . The collection of MRSA in western Sweden was checked for additional strains of this species. A total of 18 strains of S. argenteus isolated between 2011 and December 2017 were identified.