Detection of New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains That Carry a Novel Genetic Homologue and Important Virulence Determinants
- 1 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 50 (10), 3374-3377
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01121-12
Abstract
In this study, 18 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates harboring staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type XI, recovered in the Dutch-German Euregio, were characterized by DNA microarrays. In contrast to previous data, we found two MRSA strains of different clonal lineages possessing SCCmec XI that carried important virulence determinants. The worrisome emergence of such toxigenic MRSA strains raises concerns that MRSA strains with enhanced virulence potential and impaired detectability by standard molecular assays may spread in Europe.Keywords
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