title: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)--phage-typing of Malaysian and international isolates.
abstract: Twenty-one isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Malaysia (M-MRSA) derived from various sources associated with nosocomial infections were phage-typed and compared with 54 international isolates associated with epidemic and sporadic episodes of infections. It appeared that the majority of M-MRSA were non-typable by the international basic set of phages. Two (9.5%) were typed by phage 85. Phage-typing of MRSA revealed that the strains were almost completely restricted to phage groups III and a lesser portion to phage groups I and III.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Hanifah
mesh_terms: D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects