Of these, 24% (20/84) harboured Class 1 integron with aacA4- catB8-aadA1 variable region whereas the remaining 9% (8/84) isolates did not harbour integron.
Consistent with other previous studies that documented low detection of class 2 and class 3 integrons in clinical P. aeruginosa[ 13, 29], none of the isolates in this study harboured class 2 or class 3 integron.
All three ICAMs are expressed by RA synovial dendritic cells that also harbour MHC class II antigens.
Diverse eukaryotic organisms harbour a class of non-coding small RNAs which are thought to function as regulators of gene expression.
Two other unmapped scaffolds also harbour several class III genes: neu1, zgc:64108, bat8, zbtb12 are found in NA17767; and bf/c2, rdbp, hsp70, skiv2l are in scaffold NA17761.
We confirmed that meningococcal strains belonging to a limited number of clonal complexes (ccs, namely cc1, cc5, cc8, cc11 and cc174) harbour a class II pilE gene which is conserved in terms of sequence and chromosomal context.
Among the three classes of C. jejuni LOS locus (A, B, and C) initially characterized by Gilbert et al. [ 24], the majority of HS 19 isolates harbour a Class A LOS locus, a gene cluster implicated in the expression of ganglioside mimics [ 25, 26].
CC8-MRSA-VIII harbouring a class A mec complex and ccrA/B-4 genes has been recently described in Canada [17] where this strain is known as Canadian MRSA-9.
Although pilS cassettes were found in all isolates which harboured a class II pilE gene, it was not possible to identify any class II pilE sequences that contained D-region information corresponding to pilS cassettes.
Of concern, among 18 patients with drug resistance mutations, 14 harboured dual-class resistance.
As for ii), this was represented for example by fluorescent pseudomonads of clade D which harboured REP classes PF9, PF12 and PF13 of orthogroup IV.
