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Table 3 Multi locus sequence types and pulsed field gel electrophoresis USA types identified by the Diversilab® system of forty-nine MRSA isolates collected from the anterior nares of hospitalized patients at Vidant Medical Center in eastern North Carolina, 2011

From: A case control study of environmental and occupational exposures associated with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in patients admitted to a rural tertiary care hospital in a high density swine region

Multi locus sequence type

USA PFGE type

No. (%)

8

3001

19 (38.8)

8

5002

2 (4.1)

8

No match

1 (2.0)

5

1002

8 (16.3)

5

8002

1 (2.0)

5

No match

4 (8.2)

105

1002

4 (8.2)

632

1002

3 (6.1)

36

2002

1 (2.0)

45

6002

1 (2.0)

1

8002

2 (4.1)

840

No match

2 (4.1)

Untypeable

3001

1 (2.0)

  1. Abbreviations: MRSA, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MLST, multi locus sequence type; PFGE, Pulsed field gel electrophoresis.
  2. 1Historically a community associated strain of MRSA.
  3. 2Historically a hospital associated strain of MRSA.
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Environmental Health

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