Affiliation:
1. Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney, Australia.
Abstract
An outbreak of an unusual tetracycline-sensitive, rifampicin- and ciprofloxacin-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain at a large teaching hospital was investigated. Two typing methods, phage typing and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (RFLP-PFGE), gave conflicting results which were clarified by phylogenetic analysis. Phage typing identified all the "epidemic-associated" strains as identical, while RFLP-PFGE further divided these strains into four pulsotypes. Phylogenetic analysis showed these four pulsotypes were related genetically and also recognized a second strain of MRSA causing a continuing cross-infection problem. Variation in the RFLP-PFGE pattern was shown to occur following lysogenization of phage-sensitive MRSA. These results indicate that in analyzing outbreaks caused by subgroups of clonal organisms like MRSA, it is necessary to use at least two typing methods and that conflicts between these could be resolved by phylogenetic analysis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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