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. 2008 Dec 5;75(3):811–822. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01982-08

TABLE 2.

Mobile elements

Species and strain No. of:
Reference
IS elements Transposons Prophages Staphylococcal cassette chromosomes Genomic islands
S. aureus
    N315 20 5 1 1 3 35a
    Mu50 23 3 2 1 4 35a
    MW2 6 0 2 1 4 20
    COL 6 0 1 1 5 4a
    MRSA252 22 3 2 1 3 29a
    MSSA476 1 0 2 1 2 29a
S. epidermidis
    RP62A 23 4 1 1 2 20
    ATCC 12228 21 6 0 0 4 80
S. saprophyticus ATCC 15305 2 0 0 2 1 35b
S. haemolyticus JCSC 1435 82 2 2 1 5 69
S. carnosus TM300 0 0 1 0 1 This work