Table 3. Origin and frequency of Staphylococcus aureus isolates according to their sequence types^a.

Sequence type	Present study		Data from the MLST Web site
	Country of origin of CA-MRSA	n	Country of origin of MSSA	n	Country of origin of MRSA	n
1	USA	29	UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada,	20		0
8	USA	3	UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, US, Canada	46	Scotland, Ireland, Australia, U.S., UK, Germany, The Netherlands, France	39
30	Oceania (Southwest Pacific clone)	13	UK, Denmark, Germany	83	UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden	8
59	USA	1	UK	4	U.S.	1
80	France, Switzerland	67		0	Greece	1
93	Australia (Queensland clone)	4		0		0

^aMLST, multi-locus sequence typing ; MRSA, methicillin resistant S. aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus; CA, community acquired.