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Table 2.

Properties of the historically early strains of MRSA

Strain	Date	Origin^*	Phage group	Clonal type (PFGE)	Antibiogram^†	spaA type^‡	Allelic profile^§
10395^‖	1960	UK2	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSTM	YHGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
13136^‖	1960	UK2	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSTM	YHGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
ST61/6219^**	1961	UK1	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
ST61/6421^**	1961	UK1	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
6467^**	1963	UK1	III	II∷nh∷A7	PSTM	YHGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
ST63/458^**	1963	UK1	III	II∷nh∷A7	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
ST63/460^**	1963	UK1	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
E2125^¶	1964	D 12	83A	II∷NH∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2265^¶	1965	D 5	83A	II∷nh∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2453^¶	1965	D 13	83A	II∷nh∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2600^¶	1966	D 19	83A	II∷nh∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2613^¶	1966	D 7	83A	II∷nh∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2614^¶	1966	D 7	83A	II∷nh∷A2	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3005^¶	1967	D 16	83A	II∷nh∷A2	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3018^¶	1967	D 19	83A	II∷nh∷A3	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3409^¶	1967	D 22	83A	II∷nh∷A1	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3411^¶	1968	D 11	83A	II∷nh∷A4	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E4278^¶	1969	D 16	III	II∷nh∷A11	PSTM	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2213^¶	1965	D 11	III	II∷DD∷A9	PSTMEC	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E2672^¶	1966	D 22	III	II∷DD∷A6	PSTMEC	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3015^¶	1967	D 11	III	II∷DD∷A10	PSTMEC	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3150^¶	1967	D 2	III	II∷DD∷A11	PSTMEC	YHFGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 12 4 4 16
E3520^¶	1968	D 21	III	II∷zeta∷A7	PSTMEC	YHGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16
E3760^¶	1968	D 21	III	II∷z∷A13	PSTMEC	YHGFMBQBLO	3 3 1 1 4 4 16

^†‡§¶ See Table 1.

^‖

Strains from M. P. Jevons (3).

^**

Strains originally from G. T. Stewart and R. J. Holt (4). Clonal type was defined by ClaI polymorphism of mecA and Tn554 and by PFGE.