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 |