TY - JOUR AU - Brunel, Anne-Sophie AU - Bañuls, Anne-Laure AU - Marchandin, Hélène AU - Bouzinbi, Nicolas AU - Morquin, David AU - Jumas-Bilak, Estelle AU - Corne, Philippe T1 - Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus CC398 in Intensive Care Unit, France T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 9 SP - 1511 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During testing for Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit in France in 2011, we found that methicillin-sensitive S. aureus clonal complex 398 was the most frequent clone (29/125, 23.2%). It was isolated from patients (5/89, 5.6%), health care workers (2/63, 3.2%), and environmental sites (15/864,1.7%). Results indicate emergence of this clone in a hospital setting. KW - methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus KW - MSSA KW - bacteria KW - clonal complex 398 KW - intensive care unit KW - double-locus sequence typing KW - spa typing KW - molecular epidemiology KW - France KW - multilocus sequence typing KW - agr typing DO - 10.3201/eid2009.130225 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/9/13-0225_article ER - End of Reference