Staphylococcus aureus Unified Resource for Universal Surveillance
Typing, gene annotations, and epidemiological metadata for 60,182 public S. aureus genomes — MLST, spa, SCCmec, capsule, agr, AMR, virulence, plasmid, plus country, source, host, and collection year. Filter. Verify. Download your accession list.
Every genome is now linked to its country of origin, isolation source, host species, and collection year — extracted from NCBI BioSample records. Filter the entire collection by geography, drop the accessions into your pipeline, and answer questions like "all ST5 MRSA from bloodstream infections in Europe" without writing a single line of code.
Six integrated typing schemes covering the full molecular characterisation pipeline — each page supports live search, multi-column filtering, row selection, and accession export. Country and source filters are now available on every module.
Search and retrieve genomes by antimicrobial resistance, virulence, and plasmid replicon content. Pick up to 5 genes per query, switch between match-ANY and match-ALL, and export the accession list directly for re-downloading genomes.
Four steps from query to genome download — no installation, no account, no limits.
Pick a typing scheme (MLST, spa, SCCmec…) or the new Geography page to explore metadata directly.
Stack filters: e.g. ST5 + CC5 + MRSA + United States + blood + mecA. Every module carries country and source columns alongside the typing data.
Click 🧬 Accessions to download a plain-text list of matching genome accession IDs — one per line.
Feed the list to NCBI:
datasets download genome accession --inputfile list.txt — that's it.
Antimicrobial Resistance Genomic Unified Surveillance · one family, seven ESKAPE pathogens
If you use SAURUS in your research, please cite the underlying pipeline and the source dataset:
Pipeline: Beckley B, Amarh V. StaphScope: a species-optimized computational pipeline for rapid and accessible Staphylococcus aureus genotyping and surveillance. BMC Genomics. 2026;27:261. doi:10.1186/s12864-026-12609-x
Gene data: Shelenkov A, Slavokhotova A, Yunusova M, et al. Genomic typing, antimicrobial resistance gene, virulence factor and plasmid replicon database for the important pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Genom Data. 2025;26:65. doi:10.1186/s12863-025-01363-w
Metadata: BioSample records from the NCBI Assembly database — country, isolation source, host, and collection date attributes.