Genomic information on multidrug-resistant livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 isolated from a Brazilian patient with cystic fibrosis

• Main Author: Lima,Danielle F
• Publication Date: 2017
• Other Authors: Cohen,Renata WF, Rocha,Géssica A, Albano,Rodolpho M, Marques,Elizabeth A, Leão,Robson S
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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• topic: cystic fibrosis; Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; ST398

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.