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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients with community-associated and healthcare-associated community-onset S. aureus infection

From: Molecular typing and characterization of nasal carriage and community-onset infection methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureusisolates in two Taiwan medical centers

Category (No.)

PFGE cluster:CC#

MLST*

Diagnosis#

Superficial infection

Deep infection

Community-associated infection (24)

A:45 (1)

ST508

Cellulitis

 

B:6 (1)

ST6

 

Osteomyelitis

C:7 (3)

ST7

Cellulitis (1)

Pneumonia (1), spondylitis (1)

C:12 (3)

ST12

 

Necrotizing mediastinitis (1), acute cholecystitis (1), spondylitis (1)

D:1 (5)

ST188

Urinary tract infection (1)

Spondylitis (1), paraspinal abscess (1), septic arthritis (1), pneumonia (1)

E:97 (3)

ST97

Cellulitis (1)

Septic arthritis (1), endocarditis (1)

G:15 (2)

ST15

Cellulitis (2)

 

J:398 (1)

ST291

 

Septic arthritis

N:59 (2)

ST59

Cellulitis (2)

 

P:8 (1)

ST630

 

Epiglotitis with septicemia

Q (1)

NT

 

Pneumonia

R (1)

NT

 

Pneumonia

Healthcare-associated community-onset infection (10)

C:6 (1)

ST6

 

Pneumonia

C:7 (3)

ST7

Wound (2)

CNS infection (1)

C:12 (1)

ST12

Wound

 

D:1 (2)

ST188

Epidermal cyst (1), wound (1)

 

E:97 (1)

ST97

 

Septic arthritis

G:15 (1)

ST15

 

Bacteremia

N:59 (1)

ST59

Wound

 
  1. PFGE: pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
  2. MLST: multi-locus sequence typing.
  3. NT: non-typable.
  4. * representative STs.
  5. # the number in parenthesis represents the number of isolates.