TABLE 1.

MRSA isolate data

Isolate	Yr of isolation/region	Phage pattern	Designated phage type	coa typea	PFGEb	FAFLPc
2	1990/Essex	75 wkd	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
3	1991/Birmingham	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1e	A1
17	1995/Blackpool	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P5	A1
18	1995/Wigan	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
29	1995/Glamorgan	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
496	1996/Keighley	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P7	A11
497	1996/Keighley	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P7	A10
499	1996/Ormskirk	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
501	1996/Ormskirk	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P11	A1
625	1996/Carlisle	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
A	1997/Newcastle	42E/81/83C	EMRSA-15	2	P6e	A9
J	1997/Newcastle	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P2	A5
U	1997/Newcastle	42E/75/81/90/83C	EMRSA-15	2	P8	A4
K	1997/London	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A7
L	1997/Leicester	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P10	A8
M	1997/Leicester	83C	EMRSA-15	2	P3	A1
Q	1997/Leeds	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A2
R	1997/Leeds	75	EMRSA-15f	2	P1	A1
S	1997/Leeds	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A1
28	1995/Merseyside	42E/81/83C	EMRSA-15	2	P4	A1
G	1997/Merseyside	42E/75/81/90	EMRSA-15	2	P2	A1
V	1997/Stafford	75 wk	EMRSA-15	2	P1	A3
P	1997/Stafford	42E/75/81/83C	EMRSA-15	2	P8	A6
F	1997/Middlesex	90/83C	EMRSA-15	2	P3	A8
30	1995/Edinburgh	75	Not designatedf	5	P14	A14
16	1992/Keighley	29/95/75/77/84/96/932	Not designated	6	P12	A15
299	1996/Bristol	29/42E/75/83A/81/	Not designated	1	P13	A13
Tg	Oxford	NDh	Not designated	4	P9	A12

^acoa PCR-RFLP profiles obtained following AluI or CfoI digestion of a 660-bp amplicon from the coagulase gene. 

^bPFGE profile obtained after SmaI PFGE macrorestriction. 

^cFAFLP profile obtained by combining data from the primer pair ApaI+0 and TaqI+G and the primer pair EcoRI+0 and MseI+C (see Fig. 3c). 

^dwk, only reacted at 100 times routine test dilution. 

^eVariable PFGE profiles. 

^fAssigned to EMRSA-15 on the basis of PFGE and antibiogram. 

^gNCTC 6571. 

^hND, not done.