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Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Research

Rapid Increase of Genetically Diverse Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mette Damkjær Bartels*, Kit Boye*, Anders Rhod Larsen†, Robert Skov†, and Henrik Westh*†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; †Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark;

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Table 2

Genetic backgrounds and epidemiologic information on MRSA isolates*

CC Multilocus ST Spa types Isolates, no. (total in CC) No. PVL-positive isolates SCCmec types
(no. isolates) HA/HCA MRSA or CR/NR MRSA % in the CC
CC1 ST1
ST748† t175
t127 2
1 (3) 2
0 IV
V 33/67
CC5 ST5
ST125
ST225 t002
t067
t003 7
1
4 (12) 7
0
4 I (3), II (1), IV(3)
I
II 58/42
CC8 ST8
ST239 t024, t008, t430 t064, t351
t037 56/12/2
1/1
3 (75) 12 (t008)
0
0 IV
IV
III (2), NT (1) 74/26
CC15 ST15 t084 1 0 V 100/0
CC22 ST22
ST737† t005, t022, t354 t541
t542 2/1/1
1
1 (6) 0
0
0 IV, NT (t022)
IV
IV 50/50
CC30 ST30 t019 17 17 IV 0/100
CC45 ST45 t015, t026, t065 t116, t350 2/1/1
1/1 (6) 0
0 IV, V (t026 and t116) 100/0
CC97 ST97 t359 1 1 V 100/0
Singleton ST80 t044, t376, t455 16/2/1 (19) 19 IV 5/95
Singleton ST111 t041 1 0 I 100/0
Singleton
ST152
t355
1
1
V
0/100
Total 142 63

*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; CC, clonal complex; ST, sequence type; PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; SCC, staphylococcal chromosome cassette; HA/HCA/CR/NR, hospital acquired/healthcare associated/community risk/no risk. One isolate could only be typed by spa and multilocus sequence typing and is not included in the table.
†New ST.

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