Draft Genome Sequence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain AW7, Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia

David R Cameron; Alban Ramette; Josef Prazak; José Entenza; Matthias Haenggi; Yok-Ai Que; Grégory Resch

doi:10.1128/MRA.00806-19

Draft Genome Sequence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain AW7, Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 3;8(40):e00806-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00806-19.

Authors

David R Cameron¹, Alban Ramette², Josef Prazak³, José Entenza⁴, Matthias Haenggi³, Yok-Ai Que³, Grégory Resch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland [email protected].
² Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain AW7 is a commonly used challenge strain in experimental models of MRSA infection. Here, we report its draft genome sequence.