TABLE 2.

Numbers of women colonized at two sites and the recovery locations of S. aureus strains producing identical PFGE patterns

PFGE patterns	Type of isolate	No. of women with isolates froma:			Total
		N, A	N, V	A, V
Identical	TPOS	14	10	7	31
	TNEG	4	3	11	18
	Both	0	1	1	2
Varied	TPOS	1	0	0	1
	TNEG	1	2	1	4
	Both	1	3	1	5
Total		21	19	21	61

^aN, A, nares and anus; N, V, nares and vagina; A, V, anus and vagina.