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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2006, p. 2642-2644, Vol. 44, No. 7
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JCM.00430-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Toxin Gene Content of the Lyon Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone Compared with That of Other Pandemic Clones
Tristan Ferry,*
Michèle Bes,
Olivier Dauwalder,
Hélène Meugnier,
Gerard Lina,
Françoise Forey,
François Vandenesch, and
Jerome Etienne
Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, INSERM E0230, IFR 62, Faculté de Médecine Laennec, 7 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69008 Lyon, France
Received 27 February 2006/
Returned for modification 5 April 2006/
Accepted 23 April 2006
The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Lyon clone, detected throughout France, contains the enterotoxin A gene (sea), like other pandemic clones of clonal complex 8 (CC8). The egc locus was detected in MRSA pandemic clones of CC5, CC22, and CC45, occasionally with the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene. The representative strain of the EMRSA-16 clone (CC30) harbored both sea and the egc locus.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, INSERM E0230, IFR 62, Faculté de Médecine Laennec, 7 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69008 Lyon, France. Phone: 33(0)-478-77-86-57. Fax: 33(0)-478-77-86-58. E-mail:
tristan.ferry{at}univ-lyon1.fr.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2006, p. 2642-2644, Vol. 44, No. 7
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JCM.00430-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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