TABLE 2.
Distribution of the SCCmec types or elements within the CNS isolates
| Staphylococcal isolate(s) | SCCmec type | Locus (loci) amplified by the Oliveira strategy (31) | Locus (loci) amplified by the Kondo strategy (19)
|
No. of isolates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ccr type | mec class | ||||
| S. epidermidis (n = 49) | I | mecA, D, A | 1 | B | 3 |
| II | mecA, C, D, A | 2 | A | 2 | |
| IV | mecA, D | 2 | B | 2 | |
| IV | mecA, E, D | 2 | B | 2 | |
| IV | mecA, E, A | 2 | B | 1 | |
| IV | mecA, E, D, A | 2 | B | 13 | |
| V | mecA, B, H, F, A | ccrC | C | 1 | |
| V | mecA, E, F, A | ccrC | C | 3 | |
| V | mecA, E (very faint), F, A | ccrC | C | 5 | |
| New (IV + ccrC) | mecA, E, D, F | 2, ccrC | B | 1 | |
| New (V + ccrA4) | mecA, F, A | 4, ccrC | C | 1 | |
| NTa | mecA | None | None | 1 | |
| NT | mecA, A | None | None | 1 | |
| NT | mecA, B | None | None | 1 | |
| New | mecA, B, F | ccrC | A | 8 | |
| New | mecA, B, D, F | 4, ccrC | A | 3 | |
| New | mecA, C, E, D, G, F | 3, 4, ccrC | A and B | 1 | |
| S. capitis (n = 10) | IA | mecA, D, G, A | 1 | B | 1 |
| II | mecA, C, D, A | 2 | A | 1 | |
| IV | mecA, E, D, A | 2 | B | 1 | |
| V | mecA, E, F | ccrC | C | 2 | |
| New (IV + ccrC) | mecA, E, D, F | 2, ccrC | B | 2 | |
| New | mecA | 1 | A | 2 | |
| New | mecA, C, D | 3, 4 | A and B | 1 | |
| S. haemolyticus (n = 1) | IV | mecA, D, H, A (>501 bp) | 2 | B | 1 |
| S. hominis (n = 1) | New | mecA | 1 | A | 1 |
a
NT, nontypeable.