Staphylococcus aureus strain:HG003 Genome sequencing and assembly. Staphylococcus aureus strain:HG003

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the main opportunistic pathogens. Strain HG003 in considered as a good model by the scientific community since mutations in rsbU and tcaR were repaired. However, while its parental strain NCTC8325 was isolated in 1960 from a sepsis patient and its genome completed in 2001, strain HG003 was generated with molecular tools in 2010. These bacteria have a significant level of genome plasticity. Therefore, there is a need to obtain an accurate sequence of this strain as there is a growing interest in its usage for high-throughput sequencing.