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Volume 7, Number 6—December 2001
Dispatch

Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Home Health-Care Patient

Jeffrey C. Hageman*Comments to Author , David A. Pegues†, Carrie Jepson‡, Rose Lee Bell‡, Mary Guinan§, Kevin W. Ward†, Martin D. Cohen†, Janet A. Hindler†, Fred C. Tenover*, Sigrid K. McAllister*, Molly E. Kellum*, and Scott K. Fridkin*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;; †University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA;; ‡Clark County Health District, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA;; §Nevada State Health Division, Carson City, Nevada, USA

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Figure 2

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of SmaI digested DNA. NCTC, National Collection of Type Cultures 8325 control. Lane 1, vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) isolate from Japan, otherwise designated Mu50; lane 2, VISA isolate from Michigan (7); lane 3, VISA isolate from New Jersey (7); Lane 4, VISA isolate from New York (1); lane 5, VISA isolate from Illinois (3); lane 7, patient's oxacillin-resistant VISA; lane 8, patient's oxacillin-susceptible VISA; lane 9 patient's ox

Figure 2. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of SmaI digested DNA. NCTC, National Collection of Type Cultures 8325 control. Lane 1, vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) isolate from Japan, otherwise designated Mu50; lane 2, VISA isolate from Michigan (7); lane 3, VISA isolate from New Jersey (7); Lane 4, VISA isolate from New York (1); lane 5, VISA isolate from Illinois (3); lane 7, patient's oxacillin-resistant VISA; lane 8, patient's oxacillin-susceptible VISA; lane 9 patient's oxacillin-resistant S. aureus (ORSA, vancomycin MIC = 2 µg/mL) from anterior nares; lanes 10 and 11, isolates of ORSA (vancomycin MIC=2 µg/mL) from the health-care worker's anterior nares.

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