Genome Assembly of Methicillin-Resistant Quality Control Strain Staphylococcus aureus CDC73-57501 (ATCC 29247)

H E Daligault; K W Davenport; T D Minogue; K A Bishop-Lilly; S M Broomall; D C Bruce; P S Chain; S R Coyne; T Freitas; K G Frey; H S Gibbons; J Jaissle; C-C Lo; L Meincke; A C Munk; C L Redden; C N Rosenzweig; S L Johnson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00961-14

Genome Assembly of Methicillin-Resistant Quality Control Strain Staphylococcus aureus CDC73-57501 (ATCC 29247)

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 2;2(5):e00961-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00961-14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
² Diagnostic Systems Division (DSD), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
³ United States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA [email protected].

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of bacterial infections in the United States, with high percentages of serious infections resistant to a variety of β-lactam antibiotics. Here, we present the scaffolded genome assembly into 16 contigs of S. aureus CDC73-57501 (ATCC 29247), a methicillin-resistant quality control strain.