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Volume 13, Number 12—December 2007
Research

Emergence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus of Animal Origin in Humans

Inge van Loo*1, Xander Huijsdens†1, Edine Tiemersma†, Albert J. de Neeling†, Nienke van de Sande-Bruinsma†, Desiree Beaujean†, Andreas Voss‡, and Jan Kluytmans§¶Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands; †National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; ‡Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; §Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands; ¶VUmc Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;

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Figure 2

Genetic relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from cases and controls, represented as a minimum spanning tree based on multilocus sequence typing (MLST) profiles. Each circle represents a sequence type, and numbers in the circles denote the sequence type. The size of the circle indicates the number of isolates with this sequence type. The number under and right of the lines connecting types denotes the number of differences in MLST profiles. The halos surrounding the circles indicate complexes of sequence types that differ by <3 loci.

Figure 2. Genetic relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from cases and controls, represented as a minimum spanning tree based on multilocus sequence typing (MLST) profiles. Each circle represents a sequence type, and numbers in the circles denote the sequence type. The size of the circle indicates the number of isolates with this sequence type. The number under and right of the lines connecting types denotes the number of differences in MLST profiles. The halos surrounding the circles indicate complexes of sequence types that differ by <3 loci.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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