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Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016
Dispatch

Increased Community-Associated Infections Caused by Panton-Valentine Leukocidin–Negative MRSA, Shanghai, 2005–2014

Min Li1, Yanan Wang2, Yuanjun Zhu2, Yingxin Dai2, Xufen Hong, Qian Liu, Tianming Li, Juanxiu Qin, Xiaowei Ma, Huiying Lu, Jie Xu, and Michael Otto1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (M. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Zhu, Y. Dai, X. Hong, Q. Liu, T. Li, J. Qin, X. Ma, H. Lu, J. Xu); National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M. Otto)

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Table

Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated at Shanghai Renji Hospital, Shangai, China, 2005–2014*

Year Total† No. (%)
HA-MSSA HA-MRSA CA-MSSA CA-MRSA Invasive among CA-MRSA CA HA MSSA MRSA ST59 ST59 
CA-MRSA Invasive among ST59 CA-MRSA
2005–2010 500 105 (21) 340 (68) 43 (8.6) 12 (2.4) 5
(42) 55 (11) 445 (89) 148 (30) 352 (70) 15 (3.0) 4 
(0.8) 2 
(50)
2011 600 124 (21) 398 (66) 57 (9.5) 21 (3.5) 14 
(67) 78 (13) 522 (87) 181 (30) 419 (70) 24 (4.0) 9 
(1.5) 6 
(67)
2012 478 126 (26) 287 (60) 38 (7.9) 27 (5.6) 18 
(67) 65 (14) 413 (86) 164 (34) 314 (66) 39 (8.2) 18 
(3.8) 14 
(78)
2014 470 114 (24) 275 (59) 46 (9.8) 35 (7.4) 18 
(51) 81 (17) 389 (83) 160 (34) 310 (66) 45 (9.6) 25 
(5.3) 13 
(52)

*CA, community-associated; HA, hospital-associated; MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus; MSSA, methicillin-sensitive S. aureus; ST, sequence type.
†For 2005–2010, of a total of 2,681 isolates collected, 100 randomly selected isolates/year selected by using a random sample of data (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). For 2011, 2012, and 2014, all isolates obtained at the hospital were tested.

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1These authors were co–principal investigators.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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