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High prevalence of the arginine catabolic mobile element in carriage isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis

Published inThe journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 29-36
Publication date2011
Abstract

the arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) associated with staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) in the USA300 clone of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus enhances its fitness and ability to colonize the host. Staphylococcus epidermidis may act as a reservoir of ACME for S. aureus. We assessed the diffusion of ACME in methicillin-resistant S. epidermidis (MRSE) isolates colonizing outpatients.

Keywords
  • Arginine/metabolism
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Carrier State/microbiology
  • Cluster Analysis
  • DNA, Bacterial/chemistry/genetics
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
  • Methicillin Resistance
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • Outpatients
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prevalence
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis/classification/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism
Citation (ISO format)
BARBIER, François et al. High prevalence of the arginine catabolic mobile element in carriage isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis. In: The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2011, vol. 66, n° 1, p. 29–36. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkq410
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