Draft Genome Sequences of Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Strains in South Korea

Jung Wook Kim; Jae Il Yoo; Gi Su Kang; Yeong Seon Lee; Jae-Yon Yu; Chan Park; Il-Hwan Kim

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00027-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Strains in South Korea

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 16;4(3):e00027-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00027-16.

Authors

Jung Wook Kim¹, Jae Il Yoo¹, Gi Su Kang¹, Yeong Seon Lee¹, Jae-Yon Yu¹, Chan Park¹, Il-Hwan Kim²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Antimicrobial Resistance, Center for Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, South Korea.
² Division of Antimicrobial Resistance, Center for Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute of Health, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, South Korea ilhwan98@gmail.com.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequences of four vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) strains from South Korean hospitals participating in a nationwide laboratory surveillance program for vancomycin-intermediate and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus All strains harbor mutations in the walKR, graSR, and/or rpoB genes that are known frequently mutated determinants of VISA.