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Table 2 Typing data for 167 MRSA patient isolates

From: The use of the temporal scan statistic to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clusters in a community hospital

eGenomics spa type1

Number of MRSA isolates (%)

Ridom spa type2

PVL gene

CMRSA

2

148 (88.6)

t002

No

2

23

3 (1.8)

t548

No

2

26

1 (0.6)

t539

No

2

93

4 (2.4)

t026

No

1

228

1 (0.6)

t5518

No

2

230

1 (0.6)

t010

No

2

268

4 (2.4)

t067

No

2

387

4 (2.4)

t653

No

2

1178

1 (0.6)

t5607

No

2

  1. MRSA = Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
  2. PVL = Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
  3. CMRSA = Canadian epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
  4. 1 spa types classified according to eGenomics (http://tools.egenomics.com).
  5. 2 spa types classified according to the Ridom system (http://www.spaserver.ridom.de).