Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art
Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Table 1
Comparison of typing methods used to discriminate Staphylococcus aureus strains
Method | Total no. of types | No. classified | No. misclassified |
---|---|---|---|
Phage typing | 18 | 25 | 4 |
Antibiogram | 21 | 26 | 6 |
Biotype | 23 | 17 | 2 |
Plasmids | 20 | 23 | 0 |
HindIII ribotyping | 16 | 27 | 7 |
ClaI ribotyping | 9 | 29 | 7 |
IS typing | 9 | 16 | 3 |
RFLP typing | 17 | 28 | 3 |
coa-PCR | 7 | 28 | 8 |
PFGE | 25 | 28 | 7 |
FIGEa | 25 | 27 | 3 |
Immunoblotting | 23 | 28 | 6 |
MLEE | 21 | 26 | 4 |
Range | 7-25 | 16-28 | 0-8 |
Average | 18 | 25 | 5 |
spa-typing | 13 | 27 | 4 |
aFIGE = field-inversion gel electrophoresis.