PRJNA489800
Draft Genome Sequence of Livestock-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Spa Type t899
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) is an emerging MRSA lineage rapidly evolving in the community. One of the concerns linked with this lineage is the acquisition of novel mobile genetic elements through horizontal gene transfer. It promotes genetic diversity, the spread of antibiotic resistance and virulence factors. Here, we submit the draft genome sequences of nine LA-MRSA. The strains were isolated from meat and a human nasal swab in the Czech Republic and belong to a unique spa type (t899) but to three different sequence types ST398, ST9, and ST4034.