Complete Genome Sequences of Two Staphylococcus saccharolyticus Strains Isolated from Prosthetic Joint Infections

Mastaneh Afshar; Anja Poehlein; Bo Söderquist; Holger Brüggemann

doi:10.1128/MRA.00157-21

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Staphylococcus saccharolyticus Strains Isolated from Prosthetic Joint Infections

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 11;10(10):e00157-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00157-21.

Authors

Mastaneh Afshar¹, Anja Poehlein², Bo Söderquist³, Holger Brüggemann⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark brueggemann@biomed.au.dk.

Abstract

Staphylococcus saccharolyticus is a human skin bacterium and is occasionally associated with prosthetic joint infections (PJIs). Here, we report the complete genome sequences of two strains that were isolated from shoulder and hip PJIs. The genomes show signs of reductive evolution; around 21% of all coding sequences are inactivated by frameshift mutations.