Toxins and Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from a Major Hospital in Lebanon

Table 1

Characteristics of MRSA and MSSA isolates harboring the ACME, eta and etb genes (spa and mec typing retrieved from Tokajian et al. [19]).

No. of isolates	MRSA/MSSA (SCC mec subtype)^a	spa type^b	Toxins (ETA and ETB)^c
3	MRSA (IVc)	t044	ETA
1	MRSA (IVc)	t032	ETA, ETB
1	MRSA (III)	t021	ETA
1	MRSA (IVc)	t037	ETA
1	MRSA (IVc)	t008	ETA
1	MSSA	t937	ACME
1	MSSA	t1439	ETA
1	MSSA	t2179	ETA
1	MRSA (IVc)	t304	ETA
1	MRSA (II)	t002	ETA
1	MSSA	t729	ETB
1	MRSA (IVc)	t3468	ETB
1	MRSA (IVc)	t537	ETA, ETB
1	MSSA	t159	ETA, ETB
1	MSSA	t209	ETA
1	MSSA	t1515	ETB

^a MRSA: methicilin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MSSA: Methicilin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, SCCmec: staphylococcal cassette mec
^bspa: Staphylococcus aureus Protein A
^cETA: exfoliative toxin A; ETB: exfoliative toxin B.