Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Research
Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Northern Italy
Marco Tinelli, Monica Monaco, Maurizio Vimercati, Antonio Ceraminiello, and Annalisa Pantosti
Table 2
Results of nasal carriage screenings and molecular typing of PVL-positive MSSA isolates, northern Italy, 2005*
| Persons sampled (no.) | MSSA carriers, no. (%) | MSSA isolates |
PVL-positive isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. examined | No. PVL+ | PFGE type (no. isolates) | spa type | ST | |||
| July | |||||||
| Neonates (48) | 19 (39.6) | 17 | 17 | A (16) | t005 | 22 | |
| B (1) | t021 | 956 | |||||
| Mothers (55) | 16 (27.6) | 10 | 1 | A (1) | t005 | 22 | |
| Staff (71) | 19 (26.8) | 17 | 4 | A (3) | t005 | 22 | |
| A (1) |
t2336 |
954 |
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| December | |||||||
| Neonates (43) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Mothers (17) | 5 (29.4) | 3 | 1 | A (1) | t005 | 22 | |
| Staff (64) | 3 (4.7) | 3 | 2 | D (1) | t645 | 1210 | |
| E (1) | t1445 | 1209 | |||||
*PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; ST, sequence type.
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