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. 2003 Nov 15;37(10):1384-8.
doi: 10.1086/379019. Epub 2003 Oct 17.

Increasing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in California jails

Erica S Pan  1 , Binh A Diep, Heather A Carleton, Edwin D Charlebois, George F Sensabaugh, Barbara L Haller, Françoise Perdreau-Remington
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Increasing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in California jails

Erica S Pan et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates obtained from patients who were inmates of the San Francisco County jail system showed an increase in the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from 29%, in 1997, to 74%, in 2002; 91% of the MRSA isolates carried staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) type IV. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing demonstrated 2 major clonal groups. One of these clonal groups is genetically indistinguishable from the strain responsible for an outbreak of MRSA in the Los Angeles County jail system in 2002.

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