Increasing Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in California Jails
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- 15 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 37 (10), 1384-1388
- https://doi.org/10.1086/379019
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates obtained from patients who were inmates of the San Francisco County jail system showed an increase in the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from 29%, in 1997, to 74%, in 2002; 91% of the MRSA isolates carried staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) type IV. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing demonstrated 2 major clonal groups. One of these clonal groups is genetically indistinguishable from the strain responsible for an outbreak of MRSA in the Los Angeles County jail system in 2002.Keywords
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