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 2
Genotype of the "North American" MRSA clone
Isolates (N = 107) | mecA | Tn554 | PFGE | spa type | spa-type repeats | coa-type repeats |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
98 | I | A | A | spa type 2 | T-J-M-B-M-D-M-G-M-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
2 | I | A | A | spa type 24 | T-J-M-E-M-D-M-G-M-K | |
1 | I | A | A | spa type 23 | T-J-M-B-M-D-M-G-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
2 | I | A | A | spa type 29 | T-J-M-B-M-D-M-G-G-M-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
1 | I | A | A | spa type 60 | T-J-M-A-M-G-M-K | |
3 | I | A | A | spa type 26 | T-J-M-B-M-G-M-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
New isolates | mecA | PFGE | ||||
1 | II | NH | A' | spa type 14 | T-J-M-B-M-D-M-G-M-K-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
1 | II | NH | A' | spa type 25 | T-J-M-D-M-G-M-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |
1 | III | NH | A' | spa type 28 | T-K-J-M-B-M-D-M-G-M-K-K | A-B-C-D-E-F |