CC9 livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus emerges in bloodstream infections in French patients unconnected with animal farming.

Lamamy, Cindy; Berthelot, Aline; Bertrand, Xavier; Valentin, Anne-Sophie; Dos Santos, Sandra; Thiais, Sophie; Morange, Virginie; Girard, Nicole et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2013

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Abstract

We report 4 bloodstream infections associated with CC9 agr type II Staphylococcus aureus in individuals without animal exposure. We demonstrate, by microarray analysis, the presence of egc cluster, fnbA, cap operon, lukS, set2, set12, splE, splD, sak, epiD, and can, genomic features associated with a high virulence potential in humans.

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