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Staphylococcal chromosomal cassettes mec (SCCmec): A mobile genetic element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Dec 2016

Liu Junyan, Chen Dingqiang, Peters Brian M, Li Lin, Li Bing, Xu Zhenbo, Shirliff Mark E

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Considered to be a potential "superbug", methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been one of the major recent infectious pathogens and thus poses a challenge to hospital infection control. The mobile genetic element staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) carries both the mecA or mecC gene, encoding for a novel speciﬁc penicillin-binding protein (PBP2a), and site-speciﬁc recombinase genes...

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Chromosomes, Bacterial
Evolution, Molecular
Genes, Bacterial
Genotype
Humans
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Molecular Typing
Staphylococcal Infections

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PMID: 27836760
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2016.10.028

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