Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
Dispatch
Human Cases of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398, Finland
Table 1
MRSA CC398 clusters, Finland, January 2007–April 2009*
Cluster | Year | No. isolates | Origin | spa type | SCCmec | MLST | Antimicrobial drug resistance† | Healthcare district |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
2007 | 1 | Human | t011 | IV | 398 | tet, gen, tob | A |
2007 |
13 |
Horse |
t011 |
IV |
398 |
tet, gen, tob |
||
2 |
2008 |
3 |
Human |
t011 |
V |
1375 |
tet, ery, cli |
A, B |
Single |
2008 |
1 |
Human |
t2922 |
V |
398 |
tet, ery, cli |
A |
3 |
2008–09 |
5 |
Human |
t034 |
V |
398 |
tet, ery, cli (inducible) |
C |
4 | 2008–09 | 7 | Pig | t108 | V | 398 | tet, ery, cli |
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; CC, clonal complex; SCCmec, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec; MLST, multilocus sequence typing; tet, tetracycline; gen, gentamicin; tob, tobramycin; ery, erythromycin; cli, clindamycin.
†All isolates were negative for Panton-Valentine leukocidin except cluster 3.