SUBTYPING OF CHILEAN METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS CARRYING THE STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE I

Medina G.; Otth, C; Otth, L; Fernandez, H; Munoz, C; Cruz, M.; Zaror, A; Henríquez R.; Arce M.; Wilson, M

Abstract

The cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) present in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has two essential components, the ccr gene complex and the mec gene complex. Additionally, SCCmec has non-essential components called J regions which are used for MRSA subtyping. This study was performed to determine subtypes MRSA strains carrying SCCmec type I based on polymorphism of regions located downstream of the mecA gene. A total of 98 MRSA strains carrying SCCmec type I isolated from patients hospitalized at the County Hospital of Valdivia (Chile) between May 2007 and May 2008, were analyzed by multiplex PCR designed to amplify the mecA gene and 7 DNA hypervariable regions located around the mecA gene. MRSA strains were classified into seventeen genotypes accordingly to amplification patterns of DNA hypervariable regions. Five genotypes showed amplification patterns previously described. The remaining twelve genotypes showed new amplification patterns. Genotypes 18 and Genotype 19 were the most frequently detected. Regions HVR, Ins117 and pI258 stand out as being present in more than 60% of tested isolates. The acquisition of hypervariable regions by MRSA is a continuous horizontal transfer process through which the SCCmec have been preserved intact, or even may give rise to new types and subtypes of SCCmec. Therefore it is possible to infer that most MRSA strains isolated at the County Hospital of Valdivia (Chile) were originated from two local clones which correspond to Genotype 18 and Genotype 19.

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Título según WOS: SUBTYPING OF CHILEAN METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS CARRYING THE STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE I
Título según SCOPUS: Subtyping of chilean methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the staphylococcal cassette chromosome MEC type I
Título de la Revista: BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volumen: 43
Número: 3
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2012
Página de inicio: 888
Página final: 894
Idioma: English
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84870721435&partnerID=40&md5=fa56d9dc94d32543a268bc55ab820f9e
DOI:

10.1590/S1517-83822012000300006

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS - ISI