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. 2010 Dec;48(12):4608-11.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01704-10. Epub 2010 Sep 29.

Molecular characterization of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in South Africa

A Moodley  1 , W F Oosthuysen, A G Dusé, E Marais; South African MRSA Surveillance Group
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Molecular characterization of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in South Africa

A Moodley et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Dec.

Abstract

Eighty-two percent of 320 clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from various infection sites collected throughout South Africa were separated into five major globally prevalent clusters by SmaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, spa, and SCCmec typing. Only one Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive isolate was detected. This is the first detailed MRSA epidemiology study for the whole country.

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FIG. 1.
Locations of participating health care laboratories and distribution of the five main MRSA clonal types identified in the present study. (The map of South Africa was produced using ArcGIS software [ESRI, Redlands, CA].)
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