Table 1.

Isolate-level (n = 57), farm-level (n = 17) and cow-level (n = 52) prevalence of eight Staphylococcus aureus whole-genome multi-locus sequence types (MLST) isolated from the Waikato region of New Zealand North Island.

Sample Level	Multilocus Sequence Type (ST)
	ST-1	ST-188	ST-5	ST-705	ST-1247	ST-97	ST-151	ST-425
Isolates (%)
Clinical	12 (63.2)	0	0	1 (5.3)	0	2 (10.5)	1 (5.3)	0
Sub-clinical	23 (60.5)	5 (13.2)	1 (2.6)	1 (2.6)	2 (5.3)	3 (7.9)	0	1 (2.6)
Total	35 (61.4)	5 (8.8)	1 (1.8)	2 (3.5)	2 (3.5)	5 (8.8)	1 (1.8)	1 (1.8)
Farms (%)	11 (64.7)	1 (5.9)	1 (5.9)	2 (11.8)	2 (11.8)	3 (17.6)	1 (5.9)	1 (5.9)
Cows (%)	32 (61.5)	4 (7.7)	1 (1.9)	2 (3.8)	2 (3.8)	5 (9.6)	1 (1.9)	1 (1.9)

Bold: the bold headings are to clarify at what level prevalence has been calculated as described in the table heading.