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Published on: March 10, 2017
Complete Genome Sequences of the Methicillin-Resistant Strain Staphylococcus aureus 17Gst354 and Its Prophage
Sonja Kittl1, Isabelle Brodard1, Gudrun Overesch1
1Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We report the complete 2,783,931-bp circular genome sequence of the human methicillin-resistant strain Staphylococcus aureus 17Gst354, isolated from a nasal swab. The strain possessed an additional 4,397-bp plasmid. Moreover, we induced and sequenced its temperate phage Staphylococcus phage vB_StaphS-IVBph354, which has a circular genome of 41,970 bp.
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