Table 3.
SCCmec typing of 274 carriage isolates of MR-CoNS isolated from 154 adult Wayampi Amerindians during the 2006 and 2008 sampling campaigns
| SCCmec type/ccr-mec combinations | No. (%) of MR-CoNS isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All species |
S. epidermidis |
S. haemolyticus |
S. hominis |
S. saprophyticus |
Othersa |
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| 2006 | 2008 | 2006 | 2008 | 2006 | 2008 | 2006 | 2008 | 2006 | 2008 | 2006 | 2008 | |
| 2A | 7 (5) | 1 (1) | 6 (11) | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2B | 12 (8) | 12 (9) | 12 (21) | 11 (33) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5C2 | 24 (17) | 41 (31) | 11 (19) | 11 (33) | 11 (31) | 29 (69) | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 2 (66) | 0 |
| 4B | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4A | 25 (17) | 13 (10) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 25 (57) | 10 (36) | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 | 1 (20) |
| Nontypeableb | 72 (51) | 65 (49) | 27 (48) | 9 (27) | 25 (69) | 12 (29) | 17 (39) | 16 (57) | 2 (100) | 24 (96) | 1 (33) | 4 (80) |
| Total | 141 | 133 | 56 | 33 | 36 | 42 | 44 | 28 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 5 |
a
Including S. kloosii (n = 3 isolates in both 2006 and 2008), S. capitis (n = 1 isolate in 2008), and S. cohnii (n = 1 isolate in 2008).
b
The complete list of nontypeable SCCmec patterns is available in Table S1 in the supplemental material.