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. 2004 Sep;48(9):3625-9.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.9.3625-3629.2004.

National surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals indicates rapid diversification of epidemic clones

Olivier Denis  1 , Ariane Deplano, Claire Nonhoff, Raf De Ryck, Ricardo de Mendonça, Sylvianne Rottiers, Raymond Vanhoof, Marc J Struelens
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National surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals indicates rapid diversification of epidemic clones

Olivier Denis et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Sep.

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains (n = 455) collected in 2001 from 100 Belgian hospitals were characterized by molecular typing and by resistance gene distribution to macrolides-lincosamides-streptogramins and to aminoglycoside antibiotics. Rapid diversification of MRSA clones, compared with results of previous surveys, was evidenced by the broad geographic distribution of seven major clones belonging to the pandemic MRSA clonal complexes 5, 8, 22, 30, and 45 by multilocus sequence typing.

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Evolution between 1995 and 2001 of the geographical distribution by province in Belgium of epidemic MRSA strains of PFGE types A1, A20, B2, and others.
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