Volume 11, Number 11, November 2005

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Taiwan

Feng-Jui Chen,* Tsai-Ling Lauderdale,* I-Wen Huang,* Hsiu-Jung Lo,* Jui-Fen Lai,* Hui-Yin Wang,* Yih-Ru Shiau,* Pei-Chen Chen,* Teruyo Ito,† and Keichii Hiramatsu†
*National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan; and †Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

Appendix Figure 1. Molecular characterization (pulsotype, MLST, SCCmec, PVL), antimicrobial (CIP/GEN/SXT) susceptibility profile, and patient source of 80 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 4 hospitals in Taiwan. CIP, ciprofloxacin; GEN, gentamicin; SXT, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; R, resistant; S, susceptible; pulsotype, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type; MLST, multilocus sequence typing result in sequence type (ST); SCCmec, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type; PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; (no.) following pulsotype and MLST results indicates the number of isolates if >1; numbers below ICU, non-ICU, and OPD indicate number of patients from intensive care unit, nonintensive care inpatient, and outpatients, respectively.

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