Draft Genome Sequences of Vancomycin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Related to Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate S. aureus

Thiruvarangan Ramaraj; Stephanie A Matyi; Anitha Sundararajan; Ingrid E Lindquist; Nicolas P Devitt; Faye D Schilkey; Reena Lamichhane-Khadka; Peter R Hoyt; Joann Mudge; John E Gustafson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01033-14

Draft Genome Sequences of Vancomycin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Related to Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate S. aureus

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 9;2(5):e01033-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01033-14.

Authors

Thiruvarangan Ramaraj¹, Stephanie A Matyi², Anitha Sundararajan¹, Ingrid E Lindquist¹, Nicolas P Devitt¹, Faye D Schilkey¹, Reena Lamichhane-Khadka, Peter R Hoyt², Joann Mudge¹, John E Gustafson³

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
³ john.gustafson@okstate.edu.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequences of three vancomycin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. S. aureus strain MV8 is a sequence type 8 (ST-8) staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element type IV (SCCmec IV) derivative, while the other two strains (S. aureus MM25 and MM61) are ST-5 SCCmec II strains. MM61 is also closely related to the heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus strain MM66.

Grants and funding

P20 GM103451/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States