Description and comparative genomics of Macrococcus caseolyticus subsp. hominis subsp. nov., Macrococcus goetzii sp. nov., Macrococcus epidermidis sp. nov., and Macrococcus bohemicus sp. nov., Novel Macrococci from human clinical material with virulence potential and suspected uptake of foreign DNA by natural transformation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue JUN, 2018, Pages

  Mašlanová, Ivana ^a   Wertheimer, Zuzana ^a   Sedlácek, Ivo ^a   Švec, Pavel ^a   Indráková, Adéla ^a   Kovarovic, Vojtech ^a   Schumann, Peter ^b   Spröer, Cathrin ^b   Králová, Stanislava ^a   Šedo, Ondrej ^a   Krištofová, Lucie ^a   Vrbovská, Veronika ^a   Füzik, Tibor ^a   Petráš, Petr ^c   Zdráhal, Zbynek ^a   Ružicková, Vladislava ^a   Doškar, Jirí ^a   Pantucek, Roman ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; CRISPR Cas; Gram positive pathogens; Macrococcus; Methicillin resistance; Plasmids; Prokaryotic transformation; Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome (SCC)

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIS; MACROCOCCUS BOHEMICUS SP. NOV.; MACROCOCCUS CASEOLYTICUS SUBSP. HOMINIS SUBSP. NOV; MACROCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS SP. NOV; MACROCOCCUS GOETZII SP. NOV; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 85048550585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01178     Document Type: Article

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