Abstract
We performed a blinded study to compare repetitive-sequence PCR and multilocus sequence typing for genotyping hospital- and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The MRSA strains that were sequence type 8 (ST8), staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type IV, and Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive clustered separately from those that were ST5 and SCCmec type II.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2254-2257 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of clinical microbiology |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2006 |