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Redefining a structural variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, SCCmec type VI.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy ·Vol. 50 ·No. 10 ·2006-10-00 ·Pages 3457-9

Oliveira DC, Milheiriço C, de Lencastre H

Abstract

Previously we identified a SCCmec variant similar in size to type IV but with a new ccrAB allotype, allotype 4. We addressed the epidemiological relevance of this variant and found it among several strains belonging to the same clone. We propose to rename this structural variant SCCmec type VI.

MeSH Terms
Amino Acid Sequence Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology Bacterial Proteins/genetics Child Genome, Bacterial Humans Methicillin Resistance Molecular Sequence Data Penicillin-Binding Proteins Recombinases/genetics Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology,microbiology Staphylococcus aureus/classification,drug effects,genetics
Chemicals
Anti-Bacterial Agents Bacterial Proteins Penicillin-Binding Proteins Recombinases mecA protein, Staphylococcus aureus
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Oliveira Duarte C
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Rua da Quinta Grande, Oeiras, Portugal. dco@itqb.unl.pt
Milheiriço Catarina
de Lencastre Hermínia
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Article Info
Journal
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Abbr.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
ISSN
0066-4804
DOI
10.1128/AAC.00629-06
Email
dco@itqb.unl.pt
Published
2006-10-00
Pages
3457-9
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0315061
PMCID
PMC1610060
Subset
IM
Databases
GENBANK
AB033763, AF411935
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00629-06 PMC Full Text View journal details
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