Abstract
We report the whole-genome sequence (WGS) of an in vitro susceptible derivative revertant mutant from a bloodstream isolate involved in a nosocomial outbreak in Brazil. The WGS comprises 2.5 Mb with 2,500 protein-coding sequences, 16rRNA genes, and 60 tRNA genes.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Staphylococcus haemolyticus, a commensal coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CoNS) species from the human skin microbiota, has also been increasingly associated with nosocomial infections and resistance to multiple antimicrobials (1, 2). We report the whole-genome sequence of S. haemolyticus strain Sh29/312/L2, which is an in vitro susceptible derivative from a bloodstream isolate of a linezolid-resistant S. haemolyticus clinical strain, Sh29/312. Sh29/312/L2 was isolated on day 7 from serial passages on antibiotic-free Mueller Hinton agar when the linezolid minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Sh29/312 decreased from 64 to 1 µg/mL.
Genome sequencing was performed using the Ion Torrent PGM platform (Life Technologies) and 400-bp kit. The sequences were de novo assembled using Mira version 4.0.2 and SPAdes version 3.1.1. The scaffold was obtained using CLC Genomics Workbench version 7.5 and Geneious version 8.0.5 with the genome reference S. haemolyticus strain JCSC1435 (GenBank accession number AP006716.1) (3). The genome was annotated with Prokka (4) and curated using Artemis software (5).
The sequence analysis showed that S. haemolyticus strain Sh29/312/L2 has 2,561.368 bp with 2,417 protein-coding sequences, 16 rRNA genes, 60 tRNA genes, 39 pseudogenes, and 32.72% GC content. Sh29/312/L2 also harbors one intact and other incomplete phages.
The sequence of the S. haemolyticus Sh29/312/L2 genome will provide a reference for a comparative genome analysis with its ancestral linezolid-resistant S. haemolyticus clinical strain, which has some resistance mechanism other than those known target-site modifications that promote elevated MIC for linezolid. This research will help provide insight to the genomic background of an important CoNS species. After the important work of Takeuchi and colleagues (3), no whole-genome sequence of S. haemolyticus has yet been reported.
Nucleotide sequence accession number.
The whole-genome sequence of S. haemolyticus strain Sh29/312/L2 has been deposited in DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession number CP011116.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) grant 2013/06331-9. L.M.D.A., J.A.M., and P.J.P.-C. were supported by postdoctoral fellowships from FAPESP (grant numbers 2012/16108-2, 2013/12107-4, 2012/20915-0, respectively).
Genomic DNA of S. haemolyticus strain Sh29/312/L2 was sequenced on the Ion Torrent PGM platform at the Section of Microbiology, Fleury Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.
Footnotes
Citation de Almeida LM, Pires C, Cerdeira LT, de Oliveira TGM, McCulloch JA, Perez-Chaparro PJ, Sacramento AG, Brito AC, da Silva JL, de Araújo MRE, Lincopan N, Martin MJ, Gilmore MS, Mamizuka EM. 2015. Complete genome sequence of linezolid-susceptible Staphylococcus haemolyticus Sh29/312/L2, a clonal derivative of a linezolid-resistant clinical strain. Genome Announc 3(3):e00494-15. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00494-15.
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