Table 2.
Genotypic and phenotypic Staphylococcus aureus strain characterization by body site and culture method
| Number of isolates collected by body niche and culture method
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| repPCR strain type | Phenotype | Anterior Nares | Axillae | Inguinal folds | |||
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| Broth enrichment | Direct plating | Broth enrichment | Direct plating | Broth enrichment | Direct plating | ||
| RS1, n=1 (%) | EE-S | 33 | 33 | 1 (100) | 33 | ||
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| RS2, n=61 (%) | EE-S | 19 (31) | 12 (20) | 17 (28) | 1 (2) | 4 (6) | 8 (13) |
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| RS3, n=28 (%) | AA-R | 1 (3.5) | |||||
| EE-S | 6 (21) | 5 (18) | 3 (11) | 3 (11) | 9 (32) | 1 (3.5) | |
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| RS4, n=29 (%) | AA-R | 2 (7) | |||||
| EE-S | 17 (59) | 10 (34) | 3 | ||||
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| RS5, n=1 (%) | EE-S | 33 | 1 (100) | ||||
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| RS6, n=3 (%) | EE-S | 3 (100) | |||||
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| RS7, n=130 (%) | AA-R | 36 (28) 3 | 15 (12) | 16 (12) | 3 (2) | 11 (8) 3 | 16 (12) |
| BB-R | 6 (4) | 2 (2) | 33 | ||||
| CC-R | 1 (1) | 33 | |||||
| DD-R | 15 (12) | 33 | |||||
| EE-S | 2 (2) | 7 (5) | 33 | ||||
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| RS8, n=38 (%) | AA-R | 2 (5) | 1 (3) | ||||
| EE-S | 3 (8) | 1 (3) | 7 (18) 3 | 6 (16) | 13 (34) | 4 (10) | |
| FF-S | 1 (3) | ||||||
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| RS9, n=1 (%) | EE-S | 33 | 33 | 1 (100) | |||
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| RS10, n=35 (%) | EE-S | 10 (28) | 16 (46) | 1 (3) | 8 (23) | ||
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| RS11, n=1 (%) | AA-R | 33 | 1 (100) | 3 | 33 | ||
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| RS12, n=1 (%) | AA-R | 1 (100) | |||||
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| RS13, n=1 (%) | EE-S | 1 (100) 3 | |||||
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| RS14, n=5 (%) | EE-S | 2 (40) | 3 (60) | ||||
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| RS15, n=1 (%) | EE-S | 33 | 33 | 1 (100) | 33 | ||
Abbreviations: repPCR, repetitive-sequence PCR
Note: Phenotype descriptions are listed in Table 1. Percentages represent proportion of isolates within each repPCR strain type.