Relatedness of MLST types of 284 hospital MRSA isolates according to eBURST^a.

aMLST = multi-locus sequence typing; eBURST = Based Upon Related Sequence Types algorithm. bCC = clonal complex. All members of a CC share identical alleles at six of the seven loci with at least one other member of the CC. CCNF refers to a CC with no predicted founder genotype. cOnly the three most common spa types are listed if more than three associated with that sequence type (ST). dSTs with allelic profiles that share less than six of their seven loci with all other STs in the dataset.