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SUBMITTER: Sabat AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811323 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sabat Artur J AJ Köck Robin R Akkerboom Viktoria V Hendrix Ron R Skov Robert L RL Becker Karsten K Friedrich Alexander W AW
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20130903 11
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 ...[more]