TABLE 3.
Distribution of PFGE patterns, SCCmec types, and presence of PVL genes among 212 colonizing MRSA isolates
| Area of Taiwan (na) | No. (%) of isolates with characteristic
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFGE pattern
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SCCmec typeb
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Presence of PVL genes | Absence of PVL genes | |||||||
| A | C | D | Other | II | III | IV | VT | |||
| Northern (120) | 1 (0.8) | 66 (55) | 40 (33) | 13 (11) | 0 | 0 | 81 (68) | 37 (31) | 40 (33) | 80 (67) |
| Central (42) | 2 (4.8) | 28 (67) | 10 (24) | 2 (4.8) | 0 | 2 (4.8) | 32 (76) | 8 (19) | 11 (26) | 31 (74) |
| Southern (50) | 0 | 37 (74) | 9 (18) | 4 (8) | 2 (4) | 0 | 36 (72) | 10 (20) | 9 (18) | 41 (82) |
| Total (212) | 3 (1.4) | 131 (62) | 59 (28) | 19 (9.0) | 2 (0.9) | 2 (0.9) | 149 (70) | 55 (26) | 60 (28) | 152 (72) |
a
n, no. of isolates.
b
Four isolates were untypeable. The distributions of SCCmec types were significantly different among the three regions (P = 0.03).