Abstract
Here, we describe the genomic sequence of a drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239 (ST239) strain, SA9, isolated from a slaughterhouse chicken carcass in South Africa, including information about its antibiotic resistome, virulome, efflux genes, clonal lineage, and mobilome. This genomic information offers vital insights for the control of drug-resistant S. aureus.
Highlights
We describe the genomic sequence of a drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239 (ST239) strain, SA9, isolated from a slaughterhouse chicken carcass in South Africa, including information about its antibiotic resistome, virulome, efflux genes, clonal lineage, and mobilome
The molecular typing of strain SA9 was performed in silico using the whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data online platform tools MLST 2.0 [9], spaTyper 1.0 [10], and eBURST v3 [11]
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a human-associated clone (ST239) in poultry in South Africa, affirming the recent blurring epidemiology of emerging clones [18]
Summary
We describe the genomic sequence of a drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239 (ST239) strain, SA9, isolated from a slaughterhouse chicken carcass in South Africa, including information about its antibiotic resistome, virulome, efflux genes, clonal lineage, and mobilome. Received 29 April 2019 Accepted 20 May 2019 Published 13 June 2019 mra.asm.org 1 Sequences (CDS), 3,506; number of coding genes, 3,332; number of RNA genes, 59; number of rRNAs, 13; and number of tRNAs, 42. The molecular typing of strain SA9 was performed in silico using the WGS data online platform tools MLST 2.0 [9], spaTyper 1.0 [10], and eBURST v3 [11].
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