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To determine whether the β-hemolytic positive sagA/pel variants recovered from the kidney of an infected mouse maintained the Tn 917 transposon in the original location, we performed XL-PCR and Southern blot analysis as well as sequencing the region near the Tn 917 insertion using chromosomal DNA from the parental sagA/pel strain and the kidney-recovered isolates as templates.
7 was tagged with the mini-Tn5 derived transposon EZ::Tn™ (Epicentre Technologies, Madison WI) according to the manufacturer's instructions to obtain KIM8-3002.
Such clones are large enough to cover most gaps and small enough to sequence conveniently by transposon insertion methods.
All of these isolates were erythromycin-resistant indicating that the Tn 917 transposon was still present in these variants.
Small clones (< 1.4 kilobases (kb)) were sequenced with custom primers and larger clones were sequenced using either mapped or unmapped transposon insertions.