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From: ST9 MRSA strains carrying a variant of type IX SCCmec identified in the Thai community

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Structural comparison of type IX SCC mec elements carried by strains O-2 and JCSC6943. Structures of SCCmec are illustrated based on the nucleotide sequences deposited in databases DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank, under accession nos. AB505628 for JCSC6943, AB705452 (region 1, indicated by black bar) and AB705453 (region 2, indicated by black bar) for O-2. The red arrowhead indicates the location of ISS, and the nucleotide sequences are given below. ORFs are colored as follows: yellow, insertion sequences; red, cad operons; lawn green, genes for arsenical resistance operons; orange, copB; salmon, ORFs for ccr gene complexes. The three joining regions (J1, J2, and J3 regions) are indicated in green. The locations of DNA fragments amplified with three pairs of primers (a, b, and c) are indicated in red bars. Nucleotide sequences of primers used for amplification for three loci are listed in Additional file 1: Table S1.

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