Insight into Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec): Structures and their Evolution

Sunday, 7 September 2008 10:00 - 12:00, Hall A

Co-Chair Phil Giffard Menzies School of Health ResearchAustralia
Co-Chair Teruyo Ito Departments of Bacteriology and Infection Control Science, Juntendo UniversityJapan
How to classify and type the SCCmec element
  • Duarte Oliveira, CREM, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univerdidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Computer aided selection of SCCmec typing marker sets
  • Phil Giffard, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia
What have we learnt from the structural comparison of SCC elements?
  • Teruyo Ito, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine Juntendo University, Japan
Phylogeography of SCCmec.
  • Ulrich Nübel, Robert Koch Institut, Germany