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SUBMITTER: Heusser R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1797639 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heusser R R Ender M M Berger-Bächi B B McCallum N N
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20061106 1
A novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome (SCC) mec from a clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate (ST100/CC5) had a mosaic structure, composed of SCC DNA from several different backgrounds. It harbored two complete ccr loci and a new variant of mec complex B, with DeltamecR1 interrupted by the aminoglycoside resistance transposon Tn4001. ...[more]