Table 1. Distribution of infection types and relatedness of nose-colonizing and infecting S. aureus among 105 patients revealed by genomic comparison.
Infection sites | Relation of nose-colonizing to infecting bacteria | ||
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Unrelated (≥1104 variants) |
Closely related (≤66 variants) |
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Zero shared genotypes | One shared genotype | ||
Bloodstream | 4 | 43 | 8 |
Soft tissue | 4 | 23 | 10 |
Bone and joint | 2 | 8 | 3 |
Total | 10 | 74 | 21 |