Large screening of CA-MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing healthy young children living in two areas (urban and rural) of Portugal

Table 2 Characterization of MRSA strains

Strain ID	Isolation year	Antibiotype^a (resistant to)	Oxacillin MIC (mg/L)	MLST	PFGE	*spa*type		SCC *mec*type	Virulence factors^b	Representative of
						RIDOM	eGenomics
DCC5292	2006	PEN, OXA	24	939	A₁	t324	451 (UJGGMDMGGM)	IVa	lukED, hlg, hlgv, hlb, sel	USA700
DCC5504	2006	PEN, OXA	2	931	B	t008	1049 (YHGFMBOBLO)	VI	lukED, hlg, hlgv, hlb, sel	USA300
DCC5723	2006	PEN, OXA, ERY, CLI	8	72	A₂	t148	193 (UJGFGMDMGGM)	IVc	lukED, hlg, hlgv, hlb, sel	USA700
DCC1028	1997	PEN, OXA, ERY	12	82	C₁	t186	9 (UGFMEEBBPB)	IVa	lukED, hlgv, hlb, sel, eta
DCC1076	1997	PEN, OXA, ERY, GEN	24	82	C₂	t3221	1190 (UGEBBPB)	IVc	lukED, sep, hlg, hlgv, sel

^aPEN, penicillin; OXA, oxacillin; ERY, erythromycin; CLI, clindamycin; GEN, gentamicin
^bVirulence factors tested: Panton-Valentine leukocidin (pvl), LukE-LukD leukocidin (lukED), class F leukocidin (lukM), staphylococcal enterotoxins (sea-e, seg-j, sel, sep), toxic shock syndrome toxin (tsst), exfoliative toxins (eta, etb, etd), and hemolysins (gamma [hlg], gamma variant [hlgv], and beta [hlb])

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