Draft Genome Sequence of USA100 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain 209

Yingfeng Chen; Heidi A Crosby; Wilhelm F Oosthuysen 2nd; Daniel J Diekema; Scott T Kelley; Alexander R Horswill

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01399-17

Draft Genome Sequence of USA100 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain 209

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 4;6(1):e01399-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01399-17.

Authors

Yingfeng Chen¹, Heidi A Crosby², Wilhelm F Oosthuysen 2nd², Daniel J Diekema³, Scott T Kelley¹, Alexander R Horswill^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
² Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
⁴ Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA alexander.horswill@ucdenver.edu.
⁵ Denver VA Healthcare System, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Abstract

USA100 strains are significant contributors to the overall burden of health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Strain 209 is a representative MRSA isolate that serves as a model organism for agr type II studies and USA100 virulence assessments. We present a draft genome sequence of this strain.

Grant support

I01 BX002711/BX/BLRD VA/United States