Draft Genome Sequences of Three Northern German Epidemic Staphylococcus aureus (ST247) Strains Containing Multiple Copies of IS256

Franziska Kleinert; René Kallies; Annegret Zweynert; Gabriele Bierbaum

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00936-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Northern German Epidemic Staphylococcus aureus (ST247) Strains Containing Multiple Copies of IS256

Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 8;4(5):e00936-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00936-16.

Authors

Franziska Kleinert¹, René Kallies², Annegret Zweynert¹, Gabriele Bierbaum³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
² Institute of Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany g.bierbaum@uni-bonn.de.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequences of three multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus strains of sequence type 247 (ST247). The methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) SA1450/94 is vancomycin susceptible, while the clinical MRSA isolate S. aureus SA137/93A and its spontaneous laboratory mutant SA137/93G are characterized by intermediate vancomycin susceptibility.

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