title: Use of variations in staphylococcal interspersed repeat units for molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains.
abstract: Staphylococcal interspersed repeat unit typing has previously been shown to have the ability to discriminate between epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in the United Kingdom. The current study illustrates its ability to distinguish between strains within an endemic setting thereby providing a rapid transportable typing method for the identification of transmission events.
authors.affiliation: West Midlands Public Health Laboratory, Health Protection Agency, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, UK. Katie.Hardy@heartofengland
authors.forename: Katherine J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Beryl A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Oppenheim
authors.forename: Savita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gossain
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Hawkey
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008712:Methicillin / Q000494:pharmacology; D016106:Methicillin Resistance / Q000235:genetics*; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D008712:Methicillin