ENTRY       T02850            Complete  Genome
ORG_CODE    sauu
NAME        Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus SA957, community-associated methicillin-resistant
ANNOTATION  yes
TAXONOMY    TAX:1201010
  LINEAGE   Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Bacillales; Staphylococcaceae; Staphylococcus
BRITE       KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
            KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
            KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
DATA_SOURCE GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000470845.1 Complete Genome)
            BioProject: 167119
KEYWORDS    Human pathogen
DISEASE     H00330  Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) infection
COMMENT     Virulent Taiwan clone.
            Carries the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes and the staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) VT.
            Frequently isolated from patients with severe disease.
CHROMOSOME  Circular
  SEQUENCE  GB:CP003603
  LENGTH    2789538
STATISTICS  Number of nucleotides:       2789538
            Number of protein genes:        2549
            Number of RNA genes:              74
CREATED     2013
REFERENCE   PMID:24039691
  AUTHORS   Chen CJ, Unger C, Hoffmann W, Lindsay JA, Huang YC, Gotz F
  TITLE     Characterization and comparison of 2 distinct epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones of ST59 lineage.
  JOURNAL   PLoS One 8:e63210 (2013)
            DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0063210
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