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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 57, Issue 11, Pages 5774-5777Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01321-13
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- Interreg IVa [III-1-02=73, III-2-03=025]
- European Commission
- German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German Federal State of Niedersachsen
- Dutch province of Overijssel
- Dutch province of Gelderland
- Dutch province of Limburg
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany Interdisciplinary Research Network MedVet-Staph [01KI1014A]
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In this study, 425 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates recovered in the Dutch-German Euregio were investigated for the presence of the arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). Sequence analysis by whole-genome sequencing revealed an entirely new organization of the ACME-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec composite island (SCCmec-CI), with truncated ACME type II located downstream of SCCmec. An identical nucleotide sequence of ACME-SCCmec-CI was found in two distinct MRSA lineages (t064-ST8 and t002-ST5), which has not been reported previously in S. aureus.
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