title: Identification of Staphylococcus argenteus in Eastern China based on a nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene.
abstract: To investigate whether the Staphylococcus argenteus is present in Eastern China and to verify the utility of a new screening process.
  
  
  
  Phenotype observation, PCR assay targeting a hypothetical nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene, phylogenetic analysis of rpoB and multilocus sequence typing were used to screen and identify strains of S. argenteus from 839 presumptive S. aureus isolates.
  
  
  
  Eighty-nine (89/839, 10.6%) of the presumptive S. aureus isolates produced white colonies on tryptone soya agar plates. Of the white-colony isolates, six (6/89, 7%) were S. argenteus, 75 (75/89, 84%) were S. aureus and eight (8/89, 9%) were other bacteria.
  
  
  
  The PCR-based method targeting the NRPS gene can simultaneously identify and distinguish S. argenteus and S. aureus. All representative sequences of rpoB generated in this study were deposited in GenBank under accession numbers SJTU F20002, KT767581; SJTU F20269, KT767582; SJTU F20419, KT767583; SJTU F20420, KT767584; SJTU F20124, KT767585; SJTU F21164, KT767586; SJTU F21285, KT767587; SJTU F21224, KT767588; SJTU F21155, KT767589; SJTU F21294, KT767590; SJTU F20030, KT767591; SJTU F20044, KT767592; SJTU F20135, KT767593; SJTU F20123, KT767594; SJTU F21319, KT767595, respectively. All the new sequence types (STs) were submitted to a multilocus sequence typing database and the assigned ST numbers are ST3261 (151-469-20-101-145-150-131), ST3262 (12-3-1-1-4-4-410) and ST3267 (2-471-2-2-6-3-2).
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Dao-Feng
authors: DF
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Microbiological Lab, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Shanghai, China.
authors: Xuebin
authors: X
authors: Xu
authors: Department of Microbiology, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
authors: Qifa
authors: Q
authors: Song
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Yalong
authors: Y
authors: Bai
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Yi
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Minghui
authors: M
authors: Song
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Chunlei
authors: C
authors: Shi
authors: MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture & Biology & State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Xianming
authors: X
authors: Shi
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000379:methods; D002681:China; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010453:Peptide Synthases; C104385:non-ribosomal peptide synthase
keywords: Staphylococcus argenteus; Staphylococcus aureus; staphyloxanthin