Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates during 7.5 Years in One Regional Hospital in Israel

Table 1

Patientsʼ characteristics and S. aureus according to spa types and allocation of acquisition.

	spa type	Isolates (n)	Patients (n)	Source (BSI/other)	Age, years mean (range)	Males (%)	Acquisition allocated to:
							Community (%)	Healthcare (%)
								Total HcA (%)	LTCFs (%)	Hospital (%)
MRSA	MRSA-total	166	151	115/51	74.6 (25–99)	85 (56)	21 (13)	145 (87)	80 (55)	65 (45)
	t002	56	55	43/13	75.8 (35–94)	28 (51)	6 (30)	50 (34)	27 (33)	23 (35)
	t032	30	27	17/13	73.1 (25–94)	17 (20)	1 (5)	29 (20)	16 (20)	13 (20)
	t008	12	12	10/2	66.5 (35–91)	7 (58)	4 (18)	8 (5)	7 (9)	1 (1)
	t001	11	9	7/4	76.5 (54–97)	6 (54)	4 (18)	7 (5)	1 (1)	6 (9)
	t065	11	11	10/1	87.3 (69–93)	4 (36)	0	11 (8)	9 (11)	2 (3)
	t578	11	10	7/4	76.9 (59–88)	5 (45)	0	11 (8)	9 (11)	2 (3)
	t14221	6	5	6/0	57 (26–81)	3 (60)	0	6 (4)	4 (5)	2 (3)
	t9501	4	4	2/2	65.7 (39–81)	2 (50)	0	4 (3)	1 (1)	3 (5)
	t10509	4	4	1/3	78.5 (51–89)	0	0	4 (3)	1 (1)	3 (5)
	T019	2	2	1/1	49.5 (45, 54))	2 (100)	1 (5)	1 (0.6)	0	1 (1)
	T2113	2	2	1/1	71.5 (70, 73)	2 (100)	0	2 (1)	0	2 (3)
	T1378	2	2	0/2	77 (70, 84)	2 (100)	0	2 (1)	2 (2)	0
	T5490	2	2	0/2	75.5 (69, 82)	2 (100)	0	2 (1)	1 (1)	1 (1)
	Other types	13	13	10/3	75.2 (41–99)	9 (69)	5 (25)	8 (5)	2 (2)	6 (9)
MSSA	MSSA-total	34	33	31/3	72.6 (30–103)	20 (61)	23 (68)	11 (32)	4 (36)	7 (64)
	t002	2	2	2/0	61.5 (49, 74)	2 (100)	2 (9)	0	0	0
	t223	2	2	2/0	81.5 (71, 92)	2 (100)	2 (9)	0	0	0
	t084	2	2	2/0	92 (81, 103)	0	0	2 (20)	1 (25)	1 (14)
	Other types	28	20	25/3	68.4(30–89)	16 (80)	19 (68)	9 (32)	3 (75)	6 (86)

spa: Staphylococcus aureus protein A; BSI: bloodstream infection; HcA: healthcare associated; LTCF: long-term care facility; L-LTCF: local LTCF; MRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA: methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. spa types: t022, t024, t130, t13236, t14581, t2122, t346, t379, t539, t601, and t852—each had one isolate, 2 isolates were nontypeable. spa types: t015, t026, t050, t10275, t12406, t12416, t13445, t1366, t1376, t14581, t15330, t16047, t1614, t1741, t19028, t2612, t267, t306, t3454, t7234, t748, and t786—each had one isolate, 6 were nontypeable.