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Suresh Panthee1, Atmika Paudel1, Hiroshi Hamamoto1
1Teikyo University Institute of Medical Mycology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
Genome Announcements
|June 3, 2017
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We report here the draft genome sequence of the vancomycin-resistant strain Staphylococcus aureus VRS3b. The 2.8-Mb genome, assembled into 46 contigs, harbored 2,915 putative coding sequences. The G+C content of the genome was 32.7%.
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