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Table 6.

Incidences of indistinguishable strain pairs among MRSA and MSSA carriers

Type of carrier	Indistinguishable genotype incidence				P
	MRSA pairs		MSSA pairs
	Total no.	No. (%)	Total no.	No. (%)
Persistent	19	19 (100)	135	108 (80.0)	0.0263^a
Intermittent	14	14 (100)	80	65 (81.3)	0.1155^a
Total	33	33 (100)	215	173 (80.5)	0.0053

Fisher's exact text.