Whole-Genome Sequence for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain ATCC BAA-1680

Luke T Daum; Violet V Bumah; Daniela S Masson-Meyers; Manjeet Khubbar; John D Rodriguez; Gerald W Fischer; Chukuka S Enwemeka; Steve Gradus; Sanjib Bhattacharyya

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00011-15

Whole-Genome Sequence for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain ATCC BAA-1680

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 12;3(2):e00011-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00011-15.

Authors

Luke T Daum¹, Violet V Bumah², Daniela S Masson-Meyers², Manjeet Khubbar³, John D Rodriguez¹, Gerald W Fischer¹, Chukuka S Enwemeka⁴, Steve Gradus³, Sanjib Bhattacharyya⁵

Affiliations

¹ Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
² College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
³ City of Milwaukee Health Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
⁵ City of Milwaukee Health Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA [email protected].

Abstract

We report here the whole-genome sequence of the USA300 strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), designated ATCC BAA-1680, and commonly referred to as community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA). This clinical MRSA isolate is commercially available from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and is widely utilized as a control strain for research applications and clinical diagnosis. The isolate was propagated in ATCC medium 18, tryptic soy agar, and has been utilized as a model S. aureus strain in several studies, including MRSA genetic analysis after irradiation with 470-nm blue light.