Lima Danielle F, Cohen Renata Wf, Rocha Géssica A, Albano Rodolpho M, Marques Elizabeth A, Leão Robson S
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2017 Jan 1;112(1):79-80. doi: 10.1590/0074-02760160342.
Alarmingly, the isolation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been increasing among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). During a previous molecular characterisation of MRSA isolates obtained from patients with CF from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, one isolate was identified as the ST398 clone, a livestock-associated (LA) MRSA. In this study, we report the draft genome sequence of an LA-MRSA ST398 clone isolated from a patient with CF.
令人担忧的是,耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌(MRSA)在囊性纤维化(CF)患者中的分离率一直在上升。在之前对从巴西里约热内卢的CF患者中分离出的MRSA菌株进行分子特征分析时,有一株菌株被鉴定为ST398克隆,这是一种与牲畜相关的(LA)MRSA。在本研究中,我们报告了从一名CF患者中分离出的LA-MRSA ST398克隆的基因组草图序列。