Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009
Research
Cross-Border Dissemination of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Euregio Meuse-Rhin Region
Table 3
Distribution of MRSA clones in the Euregio Meuse-Rhin region, by country, July 2005–April 2006*
MRSA clone | No. isolates |
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Belgium | Germany | The Netherlands | Total | |
ST1-MRSA-V | 1 | 1 | ||
ST5-MRSA-I | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
ST5-MRSA-II | 1 | 75 | 30 | 106 |
ST5-MRSA-IV | 2 | 17 | 19 | |
ST8-MRSA-IV | 1 | 2 | 19 | 22 |
ST22-MRSA-IV | 4 | 4 | ||
ST30-MRSA-IV | 3 | 3 | ||
ST36-MRSA-II | 3 | 3 | ||
ST45-MRSA-IV | 33 | 8 | 25 | 66 |
ST80-MRSA-IV | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
ST89-MRSA-I | 1 | 1 | ||
ST89-MRSA-V | 1 | 1 | ||
ST398-MRSA-IV | 7 | 7 | ||
ST398-MRSA-V | 5 | 5 | ||
NT MRSA | 7† | 1‡ | 2§ | 17 |
Excluded¶ | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Total | 44 | 92 | 121 | 257 |
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ST, sequence type; NT, nontypeable. Based on spa and staphylococcus cassette chromosome (SCC) mec typing.
†These strains were classified into clonal complex (CC) 5 and had a nontypeable SCCmec type III element.
‡This strain had a nontypeable SCCmec element belonging to CC30.
§These strains harbored SCCmec type IV and could not be classified into a CC.
¶spa types with <5 spa repeats.