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. 2023 Feb 14;11(1):e0117922.
doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01179-22. Epub 2023 Jan 23.

Staphylococcus argenteus Infections, Brazil

Lisiane da Luz Rocha Balzan  1 , Adriana Medianeira Rossato  1 , Cezar Vinicius Wurdig Riche  1 , Vlademir Vicente Cantarelli  1 , Pedro Alves D'Azevedo  1 , Aline Valério de Lima  2 , Beatriz Rodrigues  3 , Ivan Leonardo Avelino França E Silva  4 , Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias  1 , Jorge Luiz Mello Sampaio  2   5
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Staphylococcus argenteus Infections, Brazil

Lisiane da Luz Rocha Balzan et al. Microbiol Spectr. .

Abstract

In 2015, two new species related to the Staphylococcus aureus were proposed. We describe five isolates of the new species Staphylococcus argenteus cultured from human cases of bacteremia and skin and soft tissue infections. This is the first report of S. argenteus, from South America, causing community-acquired and nosocomial infections.

Keywords: Staphylococcus argenteus; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus aureus complex.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Alignment of partial amino acid sequences of NRPS from Brazilian isolates and S. argenteus and S. schweitzeri type strains. Dots indicate identical amino acids. Numbers refer to NRPS amino acid numbering from S. argenteus type strain GenBank WP_000605287.1.
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