title: Presence of a novel DNA methylation enzyme in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with pig farming leads to uninterpretable results in standard pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis.
abstract: Genomic DNA from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from pigs and their caretakers proved resistant to SmaI digestion, leading to uninterpretable results in standard pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. This is the result of a yet unknown restriction/methylation system in the genus Staphylococcus with the recognition sequence CCNGG.
authors: Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Regional Public Health Laboratory, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors: Corina C P M
authors: CC
authors: Bens
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Voss
authors: Corné H W
authors: CH
authors: Klaassen