| Literature DB >> 19814956 |
X W Huijsdens1, T Bosch, M G van Santen-Verheuvel, E Spalburg, G N Pluister, M van Luit, M E O C Heck, A Haenen, A J de Neeling.
Abstract
In 2007 in The Netherlands, 30% of all human isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sent to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment could not be typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (non-typable (NT)-MRSA). Molecular characterisation of the NT-MRSA isolates revealed 27 different spa types and two distinct SCCmec types, type IV and V. All NT-MRSA isolates were closely related based on spa and multi-locus sequence typing and belonged to the ST398 lineage. The rapid increase of NT-MRSA (ST398) isolates over the last years shows the importance of this relatively new clonal lineage.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19814956 DOI: 10.2807/ese.14.38.19335-en
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Euro Surveill ISSN: 1025-496X