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Draft Genome Sequences of Two Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated in Succession from a Case of Bacteremia
M D S Basco1, J R Revollo2, P B McKinzie2
1Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA maria.basco@fda.hhs.gov mark.hart@fda.hhs.gov.
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|June 10, 2017
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Staphylococcus aureus strains MEH1 and MEH7 were successively isolated from the blood of a patient with recurrent bacteremia. The submitted draft genomes of strains MEH1 and MEH7 are 2,914,972 and 2,911,704 bp, respectively.
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