Blinded Comparison of Repetitive-Sequence PCR and Multilocus Sequence Typing for Genotyping Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from a Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri
Open Access
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (6) , 2254-2257
Abstract
We performed a blinded study to compare repetitive-sequence PCR and multilocus sequence typing for genotyping hospital- and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The MRSA strains that were sequence type 8 (ST8), staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCC mec ) type IV, and Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive clustered separately from those that were ST5 and SCC mec type II.Keywords
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