Complete Genome Sequence of GD487, a High-Virulence Strain of Human-Associated ST398 Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

Jo-Ann McClure; Steven M Shideler; Kunyan Zhang

doi:10.1128/MRA.00686-19

Complete Genome Sequence of GD487, a High-Virulence Strain of Human-Associated ST398 Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 3;8(27):e00686-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00686-19.

Authors

Jo-Ann McClure¹, Steven M Shideler², Kunyan Zhang^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Alberta Health Services/Alberta Public Laboratories/University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Alberta Health Services/Alberta Public Laboratories/University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada kzhang@ucalgary.ca.
⁴ Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ The Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

Multilocus sequence type 398 (ST398) methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) has been shown to have augmented pathogenicity in humans. However, it has not been determined whether all ST398 strains are equally virulent. We present here the genome sequence of a high-virulence ST398 MSSA strain, GD487, to explore potential insights into ST398 virulence.