Table 3. Virulence-associated genes in MRSA, MSSA and in isolates from different diagnoses.

	MRSA isolates		MSSA isolates		Carriage isolates		Blood culture isolates			SSTI isolates
	N =	% =	N =	% =	N =	% =	N =	% =	P (BSI vs. carriage)	N =	% =	P (SSTI vs. carriage)
tst1	0	0.0	9	8.1	3	6.0	6	7.9	1.00	0	0.0	0.09
sea	22	22.7	6	5.4	2	4.0	11	14.5	0.08	4	6.6	0.69
sea (N315)	0	0.0	6	5.4	2	4.0	3	4.0	1.00	1	1.6	0.59
seb	0	0.0	3	2.7	0	0.0	3	4.0	0.28	0	0.0	1.00
sec+sel	0	0.0	17	15.3	6	12.0	10	13.2	1.00	1	1.6	0.04
sed+sej+ser	3	3.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	1.00	0	0.0	1.00
see	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	1.00	0	0.0	1.00
seh	40	41.2	17	15.3	16	32.0	15	19.7	0.14	19	31.2	1.00
sek	47	48.5	3	2.7	5	10.0	12	15.8	0.43	22	36.1	0.00
egc	4	4.1	72	64.9	21	42.0	37	48.7	0.47	15	24.6	0.07
seq	44	45.4	3	2.7	5	10.0	11	14.5	0.59	20	32.8	0.01
ORF CM14	0	0.0	13	11.7	0	0.0	9	11.8	0.01	4	6.6	0.13
lukF/S-PV	30	30.9	15	13.5	5	10.0	17	22.4	0.09	23	37.7	0.00
lukD	95	97.9	60	54.1	30	60.0	51	67.1	0.45	53	86.9	0.00
lukE	95	97.9	63	56.8	31	62.0	52	68.4	0.57	54	88.5	0.00
sak	85	87.6	98	88.3	40	80.0	72	94.7	0.02	52	85.3	0.61
chp	27	27.8	61	55.0	25	50.0	33	43.4	0.58	28	45.9	0.71
scn	85	87.6	102	91.9	42	84.0	73	96.1	0.03	53	86.9	0.79
etA	0	0.0	1	0.9	0	0.0	1	1.3	1.00	0	0.0	1.00
etB	0	0.0	2	1.8	0	0.0	2	2.6	0.52	0	0.0	1.00
etD	5	5.2	2	1.8	0	0.0	6	7.9	0.08	1	1.6	1.00
edinA	0	0.0	2	1.8	0	0.0	1	1.3	1.00	1	1.6	1.00
edinB	5	5.2	2	1.8	0	0.0	6	7.9	0.08	1	1.6	1.00
edinC	0	0.0	2	1.8	0	0.0	2	2.6	0.52	0	0.0	1.00
ACME	24	24.7	0	0.0	5	10.0	4	5.3	0.48	15	24.6	0.05