title: Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of a Catalase-Negative Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus (Sequence Type 25) Strain Isolated from a Patient with Endocarditis and Septic Arthritis.
abstract: Staphylococcus aureus strains without catalase activity are rare, challenging to identify with conventional biochemical methods, and, despite a supposed decreased pathogenicity, can still cause disease. The first whole-genome sequence of a catalase-negative S. aureus isolate causing severe recurrent invasive infection with two novel missense mutations in the katA gene is reported here.
authors.affiliation: Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Byron
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berenger
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bernier
authors.affiliation: National Microbiology Laboratory, CSCHAH Site, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada kathy.bernard@phac-aspc.gc.ca.|Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-7771
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bernard