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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2006, p. 3457-3459, Vol. 50, No. 10
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AAC.00629-06
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Redefining a Structural Variant of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec, SCCmec Type VI
Duarte C. Oliveira,1*
Catarina Milheiriço,1 and
Hermínia de Lencastre1,2
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal,1
Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 100212
Received 23 May 2006/
Returned for modification 2 July 2006/
Accepted 16 July 2006
Previously we identified a SCCmec variant similar in size to type IV but with a new ccrAB allotype, allotype 4. We addressed the epidemiological relevance of this variant and found it among several strains belonging to the same clone. We propose to rename this structural variant SCCmec type VI.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal. Phone: 351 21 446 9862. Fax: 351 21 442 8766. E-mail: dco{at}itqb.unl.pt.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2006, p. 3457-3459, Vol. 50, No. 10
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AAC.00629-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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