Table 1.

Characteristics of 83 individual S. aureus isolates from Alzahra Hospital in Infahan, Iran

ST	Allelic profile	Clonal complex	Antimicrobial susceptibility (no. of MRSA isolates/ no. of MSSA isolates)	Virulence profile		Epidemiology (no. of HA isolates/no. of CA isolates)
				No. (%) of γ-hemolysin isolates	No. (%) of PVL isolates
5	1-4-1-4-12-1-10	5	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
6	12-4-1-4-12-1-3	6	0/6	4 (66)	1 (17)	5/1
8	3-3-1-1-4-4-3	8	0/18	14 (77)	5 (28)	15/3
15	13-13-1-1-12-11-13	15	1/0	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
22	7-6-1-5-8-8-6	22	0/7	6 (85)	0 (0)	6/1
25	4-1-4-1-5-5-4	25	1/1	1 (50)	0 (0)	2/0
30	2-2-2-2-6-3-2	30	0/5	3 (60)	0 (0)	2/3
46	10-14-8-6-14-3-2	45	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
88	22-1-14-23-12-4-31	88	0/3	3 (100)	0 (0)	2/1
97	3-1-1-1-1-5-3	97	0/2	2 (100)	0 (0)	2/0
239	2-3-1-1-4-4-3	8	7/0	6 (85)	1 (14)	6/1
291	3-37-19-2-20-26-32	398	3/1	4 (100)	0 (0)	3/1
378	2-2-2-1-6-3-2	30	1/0	1 (100)	0 (0)	0/1
585	2-1-1-1-4-4-3	8	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
672	4-3-1-1-11-72-11	672	0/3	3 (100)	3 (100)	3/0
859	79-1-14-23-12-4-31	88	4/1	4 (80)	0 (0)	5/0
938	2-2-2-6-6-3-2	30	0/3	2 (66)	0 (0)	2/1
1936a	8-7-6-6-9-9-7	10	0/1	0 (0)	0 (0)	0/1
1937a	3-37-19-6-20-26-32	398	0/2	2 (100)	0 (0)	1/1
1938a	10-14-8-6-10-3-220	45	0/4	2 (50)	1 (25)	4/0
1939a	4-3-1-1-11-4-11	672	0/2	2 (100)	2 (100)	1/1
1940a	213-1-4-1-5-5-4	25	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	0/1
1941a	7-1-1-1-1-1-1	15	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
1942a	2-2-259-2-6-3-2	30	0/1	1 (100)	0 (0)	1/0
1947a	1-6-1-5-8-8-64	None	0/1	1 (100)	1 (100)	1/0

^aNovel ST.