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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2009, p. 2616-2619, Vol. 53, No. 6
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00772-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of a Novel Variant of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec, Type II.5, and Its Truncated Form by Insertion of Putative Conjugative Transposon Tn6012{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Xiao Han,1 Teruyo Ito,1,2* Fumihiko Takeuchi,1 Xiao Xue Ma,2 Michihiko Takasu,2 Yoshio Uehara,3 Duarte C. Oliveira,4,5 Hermínia de Lencastre,5,6 and Keiichi Hiramatsu1,2

Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine,1 Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan,2 General Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Kochi, Japan,3 Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos (CREM), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal,4 Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal,5 The Rockefeller University, New York, New York6

Received 13 June 2008/ Returned for modification 19 July 2008/ Accepted 29 March 2009

We identified two novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) elements in sequence type 8 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Japan: type II.5 SCCmec, whose J1 region was highly homologous to that of type I.2 SCCmec of strain PL72 (previously isolated in Poland), and its J1 region variant caused by the deletion/insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012, identified in four S. aureus genomes.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Bacteriology, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. Phone: 81-3-5802-1041. Fax: 81-3-5684-7830. E-mail: teruybac{at}juntendo.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 13 April 2009.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aac.asm.org/.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2009, p. 2616-2619, Vol. 53, No. 6
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00772-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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