Jost, Géraldine; Schwendener, Sybille; Liassine, Nadia; Perreten, Vincent (2021). Methicillin-resistant Macrococcus canis in a human wound. Infection, genetics and evolution, 96, p. 105125. Elsevier 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105125
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A hemolytic Macrococcus canis strain (LI021) was isolated for the first time from a human skin infection. The complete genome of LI021 consisting of a 2,216,765-bp circular chromosome was obtained by de novo hybrid assembly of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore technology reads. Strain LI021 belonged to the new sequence type ST75 and was resistant to β-lactam antibiotics due to the presence of a methicillin resistance gene mecB. The mecB gene as well as putative hemolysin genes hlgB and hlgC were located on a novel composite pseudo (Ψ) SCCmec island. These findings show that a methicillin-resistant M. canis may be associated with human infection and indicate that this bacterium should be considered by human diagnostic laboratories.
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