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Complete Genome Sequence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus schleiferi Strain TSCC54 of Canine Origin
Takashi Sasaki1, Sae Tsubakishita2, Kyoko Kuwahara-Arai3
1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan hiteiha@juntendo.ac.jp.
Genome Announcements
|October 31, 2015
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We report a complete genome sequence of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus schleiferi strain TSCC54, isolated from the skin of a dog in Tokyo, Japan.
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