Table 1.
A comparison of the population structures of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from patients with infective endocarditis (IE) or bloodstream infection (BSI) without IEa.
Figure 1.
Phylogenetic tree based on spa type of S. aureus IE isolates from 1999 and 2008 surveys.
Figure 1. Circular representation of the phylogenetic tree obtained using UPGMA method (http://spa.ridom.de/). The spa types were clustered into CCs (ie, spaCCs) by use of the integrated BURP (Based Upon Repeat Patterns) algorithm. User-definable parameters were set as follows: “cluster spa types into spaCC if cost distances are less than or equal to 4” and “exclude spa types shorter than 5 repeats.” This parameter combination ensures optimal concordance (95.3%) between BURP and e- BURST (http://spa.ridom.de/). Only major spaCC are represented.
Figure 2.
Phylogenetic tree based on spa type of S. aureus IE isolates (2008 survey) and bloodstream infections without IE (2006 survey).
See Figure 1 legend for details.
Table 2.
A comparison of the genotypic profiles of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from patients with infective endocarditis (IE) or bloodstream infection (BSI) without IEa.