TABLE 2.
Correlation between the different molecular typing methods
| agr type (no. of isolates) | PFGE (no. of isolates) | CC by BURST analysis | spa CC by use of BURP algorithm (no. of isolates) | No. (%) of isolates of SCCmec type:
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | IVa | IVc | IVd | IVh | ||||
| 1 (20) | E13 (6) | CC22 | Singletons (6) | 6 | |||||
| E19 (5) | CC8 | CC211 (5) | 4 | 1 | |||||
| A (1) | CC8 | CC211 (1) | 1 | ||||||
| Sporadic (8) | CC067 (3) | 3 | |||||||
| CC211 (2) | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nonfounder (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| Singleton (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| Excluded (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 (111) | E7 (38) | CC5 | CC067 (35) | 30 | 5 | ||||
| CC012 (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| Singletons (2) | 2 | ||||||||
| E8 (33) | CC5 | CC067 (32) | 21 | 11 | |||||
| CC012 (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| E10 (9) | CC5 | CC067 (9) | 6 | 3 | |||||
| E11 (1) | CC5 | CC067 (1) | 1 | ||||||
| E15 (3) | CC5 | CC067 (3) | 3 | ||||||
| E16 (1) | CC5 | CC067 (1) | 1 | ||||||
| E17 (3) | CC5 | CC067 (1) | 1 | ||||||
| Excluded (2) | 2 | ||||||||
| E18 (1) | CC5 | Excluded (1) | 1 | ||||||
| E20 (8) | CC5 | CC067 (8) | 8 | ||||||
| Sporadic (14) | CC067 (12) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| CC012 (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| Nonfounder (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| 3 (4) | E12 (3) | CC30 | CC012 (2) | 2 | |||||
| Singleton (1) | 1 | ||||||||
| Sporadic (1) | Singleton (1) | NDa | |||||||
| Total | 10 (7.4) | 7 (5.2) | 82 (60.8) | 28 (20.7) | 1 (0.8) | 6 (4.4) | |||
a
ND, not determined.