Fig. 1.

Dendrogram calculated on the basis of pulsed field gel electrophoresis data obtained for Malaysian methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. Next to the dendrogram the banding patterns generated by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) are shown. In the subsequent text columns the strains code, community- (CA) or hospital-acquisition (HA) source, clinical material and Spa-MLST-SCCmec types (multi-locus sequence typing-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec) are identified. Note that one isolate was untypeable by PFGE and is not included in this figure. Strains 11 and 9 are Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive, as was shown before