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Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Research

Transmissibility of Livestock-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

David J. HetemComments to Author , Martin C.J. Bootsma, Annet Troelstra, and Marc J.M. Bonten
Author affiliations: University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (D.J. Hetem, M.C.J. Bootsma, A. Troelstra, M.J.M. Bonten); University of Utrecht, Utrecht (M.C.J. Bootsma)

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Table 1

Genotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from index and secondary case-patients, the Netherlands*

spa-type No. (%) with PVL No. index case-patients, n = 141 No. outbreaks, n = 18 No. (%) secondary cases, n = 47
LA-MRSA




  t011 0/24 25 1 2 (4)
  t034 0/5 6 0 0
  t108 0/5 6 1 1 (2)
  t899 0/2 2 0 0
  t2330
0/1
1
0
0
Other MRSA




  t008 8/12 (67) 12 0 0
  t002 1/7 (14) 7 2 4 (2)
  t032 0/5 5 1 6 (13)
  t064 0/5 5 1 5 (11)
  t1081 0/3 5 3 14 (31)
  t688 0/3 4 0 0
  t038 1/3 (33) 3 1 1 (2)
  t267 0/3 3 0 0
  t001 0/1 2 0 0
  t018 0/2 2 0 0
  t179 0/2 2 1 1 (2)
  t447 0/2 2 1 1 (2)
  t1430 0/2 2 0 0
  t1469 0/2 2 0 0
  Singletons 14/42 (33)† 45 6‡ 12 (24)

*PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; LA-MRSA: livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
†PVL positive: t022, t040, t044, t054, t131, t311, t318, t437, t657, t690, t791, t852, t2815, t3523, t7277;
‡Spa types causing outbreaks: t003, t088, t311, t1399, t7277, t9634.

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