Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Analysis of Publicly Available Staphylococcus aureus Genomes.

ABSTRACT: Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen that can cause severe illness and express resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents. It is part of the ESKAPE organisms and it has been included by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of USA in the list of serious threats to humans. Many antimicrobial mechanisms have been identified, and, in particular, antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) can be determined by whole genome sequencing. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) can determine the spread of these ARGs between strains and species and can be identified with bioinformatic analyses. The scope of this work was to analyse publicly available genomes of S. aureus to characterise the occurrence of ARGs present in chromosomes and plasmids in relation to their geographical distri

SUBMITTER: Pennone V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9686812 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature