Anne-Marie Kerttula1,2, Outi Lyytikäinen3, Jaana Vuopio‐Varkila4,1, Salha Ibrahem1, N. Agthe3, Markku Broas5, Henrik Jägerroos5, Anni Virolainen1
1Department of Microbiology
2Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland
3Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, 00300 Helsinki
4Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00014 Helsinki
5Lapland Central Hospital, Rovaniemi
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ABSTRACT
Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCC
mec
type V. Six methicillin-sensitive
S. aureus
strains were genotypically related to the epidemic strains.
