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Reported route of acquisition by 24 of 136 hospitals submitting their first EMRSA-16 strains to the reference laboratory. Interhospital transfer of patients was reported in all instances but one, when the EMRSA-16 was introduced by a newly employed colonized member of the staff. Numbers in circles represent EMRSA-16 spread via patients transferred between hospitals in the same region.
