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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Future Microbiol. 2012 Aug;7:959–978. doi: 10.2217/fmb.12.63

Figure 5. Organization of the bla operon and SCCmec cassettes.

Figure 5

Constitutive mecA expression; however, in the presence of the bla regulatory elements BlaI and BlaR1 mecA expression may be under regulatory control of these elements.

ermA ars: Arsenic resistance.

The classification is based on the information provided by the SCCmec website curated by the International Working Group on the Classification of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome Elements [202]. See text for further details.