TABLE 5.
Molecular characterizations of 294 MRSA nasal isolates from healthy Taiwanese children from July 2005 to June 2008
| Characteristic | No. from PFGE typea: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
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| C (n = 176) | D (n = 77) | AN (n = 3) | A (n = 2) | AF (n = 7) | A (n = 4) | F (n = 3) | AK (n = 7) | AQ (n = 5) | F (n = 1) | AG (n = 1) | AR (n = 1) | BA (n = 1) | U (n = 6) | |
| SCCmec (type) | 174 (IV), 2 (VT) | 10 (IV), 67 (VT) | 3 (IV) | 2 (IV) | 7 (IIv) | 3 (III), 1 (NT) | 2 (II), 1 (IIv) | 7 (IV) | 5 (IV) | 1 (VT) | 1 (IV) | 1 (IV) | 1 (IV) | 6 (NT) |
| PVL+ | 2 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MLST (type) | 12/12 (59) | 6/8 (59), 2/2 (338) | 1/1 (59) | 1/1 (59) | 1/1 (89) | 1/1 (239) | 1/1 (5) | 2/2 (508) | 1/1 (508) | 1/1 (9) | 1/1 (30) | 1/1 (15) | 1/1 (5) | 1/1 (573b) |
a
NT, nontypeable; IIv, SCCmec type II variants.
b
ST573 is a single-locus variant of ST1.