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. 2005 Dec;43(12):6161-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6161-6163.2005.

Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a health care ward and associated nursing home

Anne-Marie Kerttula  1 , Outi Lyytikäinen, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, Salha Ibrahem, Niina Agthe, Markku Broas, Henrik Jägerroos, Anni Virolainen
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Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a health care ward and associated nursing home

Anne-Marie Kerttula et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Dec.

Abstract

Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCCmec type V. Six methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains were genotypically related to the epidemic strains.

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Dendrogram based on the Dice coefficient of pattern similarity, obtained by SmaI macrorestriction analysis of S. aureus isolates. The MRSA strains are in bold. The patient numbers are in parentheses. HCW, health care ward; NH, nursing home.
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