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SUBMITTER: Urushibara N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4862510 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Urushibara Noriko N Kawaguchiya Mitsuyo M Onishi Mayumi M Mise Keiji K Aung Meiji Soe MS Kobayashi Nobumichi N
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20160422 5
Twenty-two of 1,103 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates containing the type II staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element (SCCmec) (collected in Hokkaido, Japan, from 2008 to 2011) harbored the arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). Five genetic variations were identified in the ACME-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec composite islands, 66 to 79 kb in size. The percentage of ACME carriage temporally increased from 0.85% to 4.5% in parallel with the emergence of ...[more]