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SUBMITTER: Cui L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2650561 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cui Longzhu L Neoh Hui-min HM Shoji Mitsutaka M Hiramatsu Keiichi K
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20090105 3
We describe here the genetic analysis of a vancomycin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (VSSA) strain, Mu50Omega, a strain related to vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA) strain Mu50. Using a combination of Mu50Omega whole-genome sequencing and genome engineering, we observed a stepwise evolution of vancomycin resistance from VSSA to VISA after the mutated vraS and graR genes of Mu50 were engineered into Mu50Omega. ...[more]