Comparison community and hospital isolates with similar STs (ST16, ST18, ST19, ST78 and ST192).

aincludes 7 isolates(1x ST16, 1x ST18, 2x ST19, 1x ST78, 2x ST192) recovered in this study and 30 (6x ST19, 16x ST78, 8x ST192) isolates recovered by Damborg et al.[12];
bincludes 377 isolates (60x ST16, 97x ST18, 7x ST19, 160x ST78, 53x ST192) present in the MLST database at March 16, 2010 and 60 isolates (2x ST16, 9x ST18, 49x ST78) described in literature [22]–[32];
cFisher's Exact test.