Identification of a novel variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, type II.5, and Its truncated form by insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012.
We identified two novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) elements in sequence type 8 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Japan: type II.5 SCCmec, whose J1 region was highly homologous to that of type I.2 SCCmec of strain PL72 (previously isolated in Poland), and its J1 region variant caused by the deletion/insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012, identified in four S. aureus genomes.
Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
Xiao
X
Han
Teruyo
T
Ito
Fumihiko
F
Takeuchi
Xiao Xue
XX
Ma
Michihiko
M
Takasu
Yoshio
Y
Uehara
Duarte C
DC
Oliveira
Hermínia
H
de Lencastre
Keiichi
K
Hiramatsu
D001483:Base Sequence; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics*
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements