A Preliminary Guideline for the Assignment of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to a Canadian Pulsed‐Field Gel Electrophoresis Epidemic Type Using spa Typing | Zendy

George R. Golding | Zendy; Jennifer Campbell | Zendy; Dave Spreitzer | Zendy; Joe Veyhl | Zendy; Kathy Surynicz | Zendy; Andrew E. Simor | Zendy; Michael R. Mulvey | Zendy; Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program | Zendy

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A Preliminary Guideline for the Assignment of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to a Canadian Pulsed‐Field Gel Electrophoresis Epidemic Type Using spa Typing

Author(s) -

George R. Golding,

Jennifer Campbell,

Dave Spreitzer,

Joe Veyhl,

Kathy Surynicz,

Andrew E. Simor,

Michael R. Mulvey,

Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 1918-1493

pISSN - 1712-9532

DOI - 10.1155/2008/754249

Subject(s) - typing , guideline , staphylococcus aureus , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , biology , bacteria , genetics , pathology , genotype , gene

Increasing rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections on a global scale is a major health concern. In Canada, there are 10 known epidemic types of MRSA as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Despite the excellent discriminatory power of PFGE, there are several disadvantages of using this technique, such as high degree of labour intensity and the inability to easily develop an MRSA typing database due to the subjective interpretation of results.

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