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Molecular Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Outpatients in Northern Japan: Increasing Tendency of ST5/ST764 MRSA-IIa with Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jul 2017
Aung Meiji Soe, Kawaguchiya Mitsuyo, Urushibara Noriko, Sumi Ayako, Ito Masahiko, Kudo Kenji, Morimoto Shigeo, Hosoya Shino, Kobayashi Nobumichi
Abstract excerpt
Arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) is a genomic island of staphylococcus and is considered to confer enhanced ability to survive and growth on host bacterial cells. ACME has been typically identified in Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-positive ST8 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with SCCmec type IVa (USA300 clone), and it is also found in other lineages at low frequency. Prevalence and...
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