| Entry | T02850 |
| Org code | sauu |
| Name | Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus SA957, community-associated methicillin-resistant |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:1201010 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Caryophanales; Staphylococcaceae; Staphylococcus; Staphylococcus aureus |
| Org group | Bacteria; Bacilli; Caryophanales |
| 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) |
| 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 (GB: CP003603) |
| Statistics | 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 |
