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

Barbier, François; Lebeaux, David; Hernandez, David; Delannoy, Anne-Sophie; Caro, Valérie; Francois, Patrice; Schrenzel, Jacques; Ruppe, Etienne; Gaillard, Kevin; Wolff, Michel; Brisse, Sylvain; Andremont, Antoine; Ruimy, Raymond

doi:10.1093/jac/dkq410

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English

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

ContributorsBarbier, François; Lebeaux, David; Hernandez, David; Delannoy, Anne-Sophie; Caro, Valérie; Francois, Patrice

; Schrenzel, Jacques; Ruppe, Etienne; Gaillard, Kevin; Wolff, Michel; Brisse, Sylvain; Andremont, Antoine; Ruimy, Raymond

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

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research groups

Analyse génomique et fonctionnelle du staphylocoque doré (604)

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

Article (Published version)

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PID : unige:25184
DOI : 10.1093/jac/dkq410
PMID : 21062794

ISSN of the journal0305-7453

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