%0 Journal Article %A Tång Hallbäck, Erika %A Karami, Nahid %A Adlerberth, Ingegerd %A Cardew, Sofia %A Ohlén, Maria %A Engström Jakobsson, Hedvig %A Svensson Stadler, Liselott %T Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus argenteus misidentified as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerging in western Sweden %D 2018 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 67 %N 7 %P 968-971 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000760 %K spa %K MRSA %K Staphylococcus argenteus %K Staphylococcus aureus %I Microbiology Society, %X Two strains included in a whole-genome sequencing project for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were identified as non-Staphylococcus aureus when the sequences were analysed using the bioinformatics software ALEX (www.1928diagnostics.com, Gothenburg, Sweden). Sequencing of the sodA gene of these strains identified them as Staphylococcus argenteus. The collection of MRSA in western Sweden was checked for additional strains of this species. A total of 18 strains of S. argenteus isolated between 2011 and December 2017 were identified. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.000760