Complete Genome Sequence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 1, SCC mec IV[2B], Isolated in the 1990s from Northern Western Australia

Nicola M Karakatsanis; Shakeel Mowlaboccus; Elena Colombi; Julie C Pearson; Joshua P Ramsay; Geoffrey W Coombs

doi:10.1128/MRA.00796-21

Complete Genome Sequence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 1, SCC mec IV[2B], Isolated in the 1990s from Northern Western Australia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Sep 16;10(37):e0079621. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00796-21. Epub 2021 Sep 16.

Authors

Nicola M Karakatsanis^{1

2}, Shakeel Mowlaboccus^{3

4}, Elena Colombi^{1

2}, Julie C Pearson⁴, Joshua P Ramsay^{1

2}, Geoffrey W Coombs^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
² Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
³ College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

Sequence type 1 (ST1) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) SCCmec IV[2B] has become one of the most common community-associated MRSA clones in Australia. We report the complete genome sequence of one of the earliest isolated Australian S. aureus ST1-MRSA-IV strains, WBG8287, isolated from an Indigenous Australian patient living in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.