title: Establishment of ST30 as the predominant clonal type among community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Singapore.
abstract: The number of infections attributable to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Singapore is progressively increasing. Most cases in the past 2 years were caused by Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive isolates belonging to sequence type 30, according to multilocus sequence typing. This has clearly become the predominant sequence type among CA-MRSA isolates in Singapore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, S169608 Singapore, Singapore. liyang_hsu@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Li-Yang
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Yin-Ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: Nidhi Loomba
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Chlebicka
authors.forename: Thean-Yen
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Prabha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Krishnan
authors.forename: Raymond Tzer-Pin
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tee
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Barkham
authors.forename: Tse-Hsien
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Koh
mesh_terms: D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance / Q000235:genetics; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D012846:Singapore / Q000453:epidemiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014774:Virulence / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial