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Volume 25, Number 1—January 2019
Research Letter

Severe Disease Caused by Community-Associated MRSA ST398 Type V, Australia, 2017

Geoffrey W. CoombsComments to Author , Stanley Pang, Denise A. Daley, Yung Thin Lee, Sam Abraham, and Marcel Leroi
Author affiliations: PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia (G.W. Coombs); Murdoch University, Murdoch (G.W. Coombs, S. Pang, Y.T. Lee, S. Abraham); Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, Murdoch (D.A. Daley); Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia (M. Leroi)

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Phylogenetic tree of MRSA sequence type (ST) 398 isolate S23009-2017, recovered from a man in Australia in 2017, and related MRSA ST398 isolates from around the world (2,6,7). The tree was constructed by using single-nucleotide polymorphism differences and is rooted with MRSA ST398 isolates containing a single Panton-Valentine leukocidin locus. Isolates are grouped into clusters as described by Price et al. (6). Scale bar represents number of nucleotide substitutions per residue. CA-MRSA, commun

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of MRSA sequence type (ST) 398 isolate S23009-2017, recovered from a man in Australia in 2017, and related MRSA ST398 isolates from around the world (2,6,7). The tree was constructed by using single-nucleotide polymorphism differences and is rooted with MRSA ST398 isolates containing a single Panton-Valentine leukocidin locus. Isolates are grouped into clusters as described by Price et al. (6). Scale bar represents number of nucleotide substitutions per residue. CA-MRSA, community-associated MRSA; GOI, gene of interest; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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