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Plasmid-borne vga(A)-encoding gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine farmer in the United States
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Plasmid-borne vga(A)-encoding gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine farmer in the United States

Rodrigo E Mendes, Tara C Smith, Lalitagauri Deshpande, Daniel J Diekema, Helio S Sader and Ronald N Jones
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, Vol.71(2), pp.177-180
10/2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.06.009
PMID: 21856108

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Abstract

We report a novel vga(A) detected in 3 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine caretaker in the United States. Strains were wild type for L3 and L4, but positive for vga(A) and tet(M). vga(A) was plasmid-located (ca. 24-kb) and demonstrated mobilization genes upstream and a transposase belonging to the IS3 family located downstream.
MRSA ST398 vga(A) Swine Tetracyclines Clindamycin Pleuromutilins

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