TABLE 3.

Detection of the pediatric clone of MRSA in international samples

Origin	Isolation period (yr)	No. of hospitals	Hospital code	Type of hospital	No. of MRSA isolates		Ward(s) from which pediatric clone was recovered	Primary source of MRSA	Source or reference
					Total	Pediatric clone
Lisbon, Portugal	1992–1997	1	HDE	Pediatric	53	32	Several	Children	This study
Colombiaa	1996	NAb	NA	NA	10	10	NA	NA	41
Poland	1990–1996	18			158	75			22
	1993–1994		WAW1	Teaching	39	33	Pediatric	Children
	1991–1992, 1996		WAW2	University children’s	30	11	NA	Children
	1993, 1995		WAW3	Gynecological-obstetric university	22	20	Neonatalogy	Children
	1994		WAW4	Pediatric	9	2	NA	Children
	1994		WAW5	NA	5	3	NA	NA
	1992		WAW6	Pediatric	2	1	NA	Children
	1994		GDK1	Municipal	4	2	NA	NA
	1991		LOD1	University	1	1	NA	NA
Argentina	1994–1996	13			148	23			6
	1996		SOR	Pediatric	14	7	Several	Children
	1996		GAR	Pediatric	15	5	Several	Children
	1995–1996		ICBA	Cardiology	10	2	Surgery	NA
	1996		BAZ	Community	17	2	Neonatology, medicine	Child, NA
	1994–1996		CEM	Community	14	3	Ambulatory, medicine	NA
	1996		CLI	Community	10	2	ICU, ambulatory	NA
	1994–1996		FER	Community	12	1	Neonatology	Child
	1994–1996		FLE	Neurology	8	1	ICU	NA
New York, N.Y.	1989	1	BM	Community	55	38	NA	NA	11
	1989	1	MMC	Community	79	15 (12)c	Labor and delivery	Children	20
	1988–1991	1	CMH	University	37	12d	Pediatric	Children	8, 14

^aStudy not complete. 

^bNA, data not available. 

^cTwelve of the 15 II:NH isolates were recovered from the labor and delivery wards. PFGE patterns were not available for comparison. 

^dThis study was an investigation of an outbreak in the neonatal ICU of the hospital. The outbreak was caused by the pediatric clone that was also recovered from the well-baby nurseries. All isolates recovered from the adult wards belonged to a different clone.