Figure 1.

Five representative samples from dually colonized inmates that were chosen to show the differences in the Staphylococcus aureus isolate pairs. The spa types indicate the assignment of strain type based on the Ridom software. The assignment of the different repeats (allelic profile) and their location for the spa types is also provided. The PFGE profiles of the discordant pair are also displayed along with the dendrogram displaying the degree of similarity of the 2 strains. Pairwise similarity scores for the isolates were calculated using the Dice coefficient.