Novel Organization of the Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element and Staphylococcal Cassette ChromosomemecComposite Island and Its Horizontal Transfer between Distinct Staphylococcus aureus Genotypes

A New Local Variant (ST764) of the Globally Disseminated ST5 Lineage of Hospital-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Carrying the Virulence Determinants of Community-Associated MRSA

(2013) Tomomi Takano et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Functional Modularity of the Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element Contributes to the Success of USA300 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2013) Lance R. Thurlow et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Carriage of an ACME II Variant May Have Contributed to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 239-Like Strain Replacement in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia

(2012) B. A. Espedido et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Two novel arginine catabolic mobile elements and staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec composite islands in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotypes ST5-MRSA-V and ST5-MRSA-II

(2012) N. Urushibara et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Characterization of a Novel Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element (ACME) and Staphylococcal Chromosomal CassettemecComposite Island with Significant Homology to Staphylococcus epidermidis ACME Type II in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Genotype ST22-MRSA-IV

(2011) Anna C. Shore et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Arginine catabolic mobile element encoded speG abrogates the unique hypersensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus to exogenous polyamines

(2011) Gauri S. Joshi et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

An Unexpected Location of the Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element (ACME) in a USA300-Related MRSA Strain

(2011) Mette Damkjær Bartels et al.   PLoS One

High prevalence of the arginine catabolic mobile element in carriage isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis

(2010) François Barbier et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Reordering contigs of draft genomes using the Mauve Aligner

(2009) Anna I. Rissman et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element Is Not Associated with Enhanced Virulence in Experimental Invasive Disease Caused by the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Genetic Background

(2009) C. P. Montgomery et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300: origin and epidemiology

(2009) F. C. Tenover et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Genetic Diversity of Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Staphylococcus epidermidis

(2009) Maria Miragaia et al.   PLoS One

The Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element and Staphylococcal Chromosomal CassettemecLinkage: Convergence of Virulence and Resistance in the USA300 Clone of Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureus

(2008) Binh An Diep et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES