Volume 12, Number 3, March 2006

Pneumonia and New Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone

Fabien Garnier,* Anne Tristan,† Bruno François,‡ Jerome Etienne,† Manuella Delage-Corre,§ Christian Martin,* Nadia Liassine,¶ Wim Wannet,# François Denis,* and Marie-Cécile Ploy*
*Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Limoges, France; †Centre National de Reference des Staphylocoques, Lyon, France; ‡Service de Réanimation Polyvalente, Limoges, France; §Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Limoges, France; ¶Bioanalytique-Riotton, Geneva, Switzerland; and #National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Figure. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern and phylogenetic tree of 4 strains ST377. SmaI macrorestriction patterns were digitized and analyzed by using GelCompar II (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium) to calculate Dice coefficients of correlation and to generate a dendrogram by the unweighted pair group method using arithmetic averages clustering. The scale indicates the level of pattern similarity. PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; ST, sequence type.

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