Volume 11, Number 6, June 2005

Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Canada

Michael R. Mulvey,* Laura MacDougall,†‡ Brenda Cholin,§ Greg Horsman,¶ Melanie Fidyk,# Shirley Woods,** and the Saskatchewan CA-MRSA Study Group
*National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; †British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ‡Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; §Prairie North Health Region, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada; ¶Saskatchewan Health Provincial Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; #Kelsey Trail Health Region, Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada; and **Northern Intertribal Health Authority, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Figure 1. Epidemiologic curve showing the emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in central-eastern Saskatchewan. A) Number of nonrepeat cases over the length of study; solid bars, cases identified in a long-term care facility; gray bars, cases identified in community health centers. B) Same data as (A), with solid bars representing isolates of clone A and gray bars showing isolates of clone B.

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