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Volume 31, Number 1—January 2025
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Clonal Complex 398 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Producing Panton-Valentine Leukocidin, Czech Republic, 2023

Kristýna Brodíková, Thibault Destanque, Marisa Haenni, and Renáta KarpíškováComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (K. Brodíková, R. Karpíšková); ANSES–Université de Lyon, Lyon, France (T. Destanque, M. Haenni)

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Schematic representation of the Tn544 transposon carrying the ermA and ant(9)-Ia genes representative of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine–positive clonal complex 398. The ermA gene sequence of the strains isolated from patients in the Czech Republic in 2023 align with the reference sequence of the ResFinder software (Genomic Epidemiology Center, http://www.genomicepidemiology.org). The resistance genes ermA and ant(9)-Ia (arrows) are transcribed in different directions because they are located on different strands of the DNA. Q, query sequence; R, reference sequence; tnpA, transposase A; tnpB, transposase B; tnpC, transposase C.

Figure. Schematic representation of the Tn544 transposon carrying the ermA and ant(9)-Ia genes representative of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine–positive clonal complex 398. The ermA gene sequence of the strains isolated from patients in the Czech Republic in 2023 align with the reference sequence of the ResFinder software (Genomic Epidemiology Center, http://www.genomicepidemiology.org). The resistance genes ermA and ant(9)-Ia (arrows) are transcribed in different directions because they are located on different strands of the DNA. Q, query sequence; R, reference sequence; tnpA, transposase A; tnpB, transposase B; tnpC, transposase C.

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