Table 1.

Molecular characterization of the 31 MRCoNS strains recovered from healthy owners and their pets from 20 households.

Individuals involved in cases of Interspecies Transmission and strain characteristics are marked in bold. ^aHH, household no. Households 1–2 compile data from household individuals where at least one owner and one pet carried MRCoNS Households 3–13 cluster those where only owners were positive for MRCoNS; and Households 14–20 include those where only pets carried MRCoNS. ^bMRCoNS, Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci. (%) refers to the percentage of identity to the best NCBI BLASTN hit. ^cMutations in the quinolone resistance determining regions (QRDR) of GyrA and GyrB subunits of DNA Gyrase as well as of ParC and ParE subunits of DNA topoisomerase IV are not displayed. ^dE, erythromycin; Cc, constitutive clindamycin resistance; Ci, inducible clindamycin resistance; Che, clindamycin hetero resistance; T, tetracycline; G, gentamicin; To, tobramycin; K, kanamycin; S, streptomycin; M, mupirocin; X, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; Xi, intermediate resistance trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; to Ch, chloramphenicol; Cp, ciprofloxacin; F, fusidic acid. ^eSequence type for which aroE and tpi alleles could not be amplified with standard primers.^fNT, non-typeable. Cells with gray background highlight the concordant results between both SCCmec classification schemes.