TABLE 1.
Characterization of 20 PVL-positive MRSA isolates recovered in The Netherlands in 2000 and 2002
| ST (determined by MLST) | No. of isolates | agr typea | SCCmec type (n) | Detection of toxin geneg
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| secb | egcc | edind | hlge | etdf | ||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | IV (1) | − | − | − | − | − |
| 30 | 3 | 3 | I (1) | − | + | − | − | − |
| IV (2) | − | + | − | − | − | |||
| 37 | 1 | 3 | I (1) | + | + | − | − | − |
| 59 | 3 | 1 | III (2) | − | − | − | + | − |
| IV (1) | − | − | − | + | − | |||
| 80 | 12 | 3 | IV (12) | − | − | + | − | + |
a
Accessory gene regulator.
b
Staphylococcal enterotoxin c gene.
c
Staphylococcal enterotoxin genes (seg, sei, sem, sen, and seo genes are located on the same gene cluster).
d
Epidermal differentiation inhibitor gene.
e
Gamma hemolysin gene.
f
Exfoliatin D gene.
g
+, present; −, absent.