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SUBMITTER: Holden MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2812470 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Holden Matthew T G MT Lindsay Jodi A JA Corton Craig C Quail Michael A MA Cockfield Joshua D JD Pathak Smriti S Batra Rahul R Parkhill Julian J Bentley Stephen D SD Edgeworth Jonathan D JD
Journal of bacteriology 20091130 3
The 3.1-Mb genome of an outbreak methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain (TW20) contains evidence of recently acquired DNA, including two large regions (635 kb and 127 kb). The strain is resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, antiseptics, and heavy metals due to resistance genes encoded on mobile genetic elements and also mutations in housekeeping genes. ...[more]