title: Clonal complexes of Staphylococcus aureus: all mixed and together.
abstract: In this manuscript, we show that the most important clonal complexes of Staphylococcus aureus, CC1, CC5, CC8, CC15 and CC97, are now all connected by eburst when run on the Multi-locus sequence typing (mlst) database. The seven loci suggested for the mlst scheme of S. aureus are not enough to separate the most important clones such as New York/Japan and Brazilian Epidemic Clone (BEC). They now all belong to the same clonal complex and this may be the time to think about a new way to discriminate them.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Microbiologia Molecular (LEMiMo), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Andrei N G
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Dabul
authors.forename: Ilana L B C
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Camargo
keywords: molecular epidemiology; sequence typing; typing method