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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

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.

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