Association of MRSA PFGE epidemic types with <i>spa</i>, SCC<i>mec</i>, and PVL types in Alberta from August 2009 to November 2009.

Isolates with spa types that correspond to more than one epidemic type and require PFGE for PFGE epidemic type assignmenta, are rare or have not been previously observed in Albertab, are novel spa typesc, or could not be genotyped using PFGEd are shown. Isolates marked with an * were SCCmec typed with primers from Kondo et al. (18); all other isolates were SCCmec typed using primers from Oliveira et al. (17).