Table 1. Virulence gene profile of a MRSA isolate from the neonatal outbreak (Mette Theilgaard Christiansen, personal communication).

Virulence factors	Relatedgenes	Nucleotidehomology	Virulence factors	Relatedgenes	Nucleotidehomology	Virulence factors	Relatedgenes	Nucleotidehomology
Adherence			Exoenzyme			Toxin
Autolysin	atl	100.00%	Cysteine protease	sspB	100.00%	Beta hemolysin	hlb	100.00%
Cell wall associated fibronectin binding protein	ebh	93.57%		sspC	99.70%	Delta hemolysin	hld	100.00%
Clumping factor B	clfB	92.61%	Hyaluronate lyase	hysA	100.00%	Exfoliative toxin type A	eta	99.47%
Collagen adhesion	cna	98.51%	Lipase	lip	100.00%	Exotoxin/superantigen-like proteins	set2	100.00%
Extracellular adherence protein/MHC analogous protein	eap/map	92.92%		geh	100.00%		set3	100.00%
Fibronectin binding proteins	fnbA	97.93%	Serine protease	splA	100.00%		set4	100.00%
	fnbB	100.00%		splB	100.00%		set16	100.00%
Intercellular adhesin	icaR	100.00%		splD	100.00%		set17	100.00%
	icaA	100.00%		splE	100.00%		set18	100.00%
	icaD	100.00%		splF	100.00%		set20	100.00%
	icaB	100.00%	Serine V8 protease	sspA	97.78%		set21	100.00%
	icaC	100.00%	Staphylokinase	sak	100.00%		set22	100.00%
Ser-Asp rich fibrinogen-binding proteins	sdrC	92.14%	Thermonuclease	nuc	100.00%		set23	99.86%
	sdrD	96.77%	Secretion system				set24	100.00%
	sdrE	100.00%	Type VII secretion system	esxA	100.00%		set25	100.00%
	sdrH	97.11%		esaA	100.00%		set26	100.00%
Staphylococcal protein A	spa	99.11%		essA	100.00%		hlgA	100.00%
von Willebrand factor	vwb	99.93%		esaB	100.00%		hlgC	100.00%
Host Immune evasion				essB	100.00%		hlgB	100.00%
Exoprotein SCIN	scn	99.72%		essC	100.00%		lukD	100.00%
Capsule Type 1, 5 and 8	capA	100.00%		esaC	98.99%		lukE	100.00%
	capB	100.00%		esxB	99.37%
	capC	100.00%
	capD	100.00%
	capP	99.15%