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Volume 20, Number 9—September 2014
Dispatch

Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus CC398 in Intensive Care Unit, France

Anne-Sophie BrunelComments to Author , Anne-Laure Bañuls, Hélène Marchandin, Nicolas Bouzinbi, David Morquin, Estelle Jumas-Bilak, and Philippe Corne
Author affiliations: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France (A.-S. Brunel, A.-L. Bañuls, N. Bouzinbi, D. Morquin, P. Corne); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, Montpellier (A.-S. Brunel, H. Marchandin, E. Jumas-Bilak, D. Morquin, P. Corne); Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier (H. Marchandin, E. Jumas-Bilak)

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Table 2

Microbiological characteristics of 29 Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 isolates from intensive care unit, France, 2011

Source* Place of isolation† Date of isolation MLST‡ Resistance phenotype§ MLS resistance genes¶
ermA ermC msrA ermT
P1 S Jan 31 ST2658 BL, iMLS – – – +
P1 N Jan 31 ST2658 BL, iMLS – – – +
P2 N Feb 14 ST2658 BL, iMLS – – – +
P2 S# Feb 21 ST2658 BL, iMLS – – – +
P3 N Feb 28 ST398 BL, iMLS – – – +
P4 BAL# Apr 6 ST398 iMLS – + – +
P4 B# Apr 8 ST398 iMLS – – – +
P4 BAL# Apr 8 ST398 iMLS – – – +
P4 N Apr 11 ST398 iMLS – – – +
P4 S# Apr 11 ST398 iMLS – – – +
P4 S May 9 ST398 iMLS – – – +
P5 S June 14 ST398 BL, iMLS – – – +
HCW1 N Feb 13 ST398 BL, iMLS – – – +
HCW2 N Feb 14 ST398 iMLS – – – +
E HCW kitchen, microwave Mar 2 ST398 BL, iMLS – + – +
E Care room no. 1, telephone Mar 2 ST398 iMLS – + – +
E Doctor’s telephone Apr 5 ST398 iMLS – + – +
E HCW kitchen, lunch table Apr 5 ST398 BL, iMLS – + – +
E Staff room, notebook Apr 5 ST398 BL, iMLS – – – +
E Medical room, telephone Apr 5 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – + – +
E Material room, telephone Apr 5 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – + – +
E Refrigerator in office Apr 6 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – + – +
E Bedroom no. 7, table Apr 6 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – + – +
E Bedroom no. 8, care card Apr 6 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – + – +
E Bedroom no. 10, infusion manifold Apr 6 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – – – +
E Care room no. 3, telephone Apr 6 ST398 iMLSB, KTG – – – +
E Care room no. 2, furniture Apr 6 ST398 BL, iMLS + – – +
E Bedroom no. 1, infusion manifold May 9 ST398 iMLS + – – +
E Bedroom no. 12, negatoscope May 9 ST398 BL, iMLS – – – +

*P, patient; HCW, health care worker, E, environment.
†S, sputum; N, nose; BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; B, bloodstream.
‡MLST, multilocus sequence type; ST, sequence type.
§BL, β-lactamase (resistance to penicillin and amoxicillin); iMLS, inducible macrolide–lincosamide–streptomycin B; KTG, kanamycin, tobramycin, gentamicin.
¶–, negative; +, positive.
#Strains isolated from infected patients.

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