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Staphylococcus aureus - NRS123
Other designations ( MW2;C1999000459;USA400;99065 )
Demographic Information:
 Country/State: United States / North Dakota  Date of Isolation: 01/01/1998
 Patient Age: 1 Year(s) and 4 Month(s)  Gender: Female
 Patient Location: Inpatient  Patient Service: Pediatrics
 Culture Source: Bloodstream
 Phenotypic Properties:  Methicillin resistance; susceptible to non beta-lactam antibiotics
 Genotypic Properties:  Type IVa SCCmec; seh+, seo+; cna+; (lukS-PV-lukF-PV)+;
 PFT is USA400, MLST is ST1, spa type is UJJJJFE, agr group III
 Literature Citation:  MMWR. Aug 20, 1999. CDC 48(32):707-709.
 Baba, T. et al. 2002. The Lancet 359:1819-1827.
 JCM, 2003, 41:5113-5120.
 Comment: According to report in MMWR, NRS123 was closely related to NRS192, NRS193, and NRS194 by PFGE.
 Description:  A community-acquired MRSA strain sequenced at the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Tokyo.
 Repositories: Genome Sequenced Strains
Known Clinically Associated Strains - Others
Molecular Typing Control Strains

S = Susceptible; R = Resistant; NS = Not Susceptible; I =Intermediate; N/A = Not Available P= Pending results
NARSA Antimicrobial Profile for Other Antimicrobial Agents Molecular Characterization Data
Drug MIC (mg/ml) CLSI Interptn
Ciprofloxacin = 0.5 S
Clindamycin = 0.12 S
Daptomycin = 0.5 N/A
Erythromycin = 0.5 S
Gentamicin = 0.5 S
Linezolid = 2 S
Oxacillin > 16 R
Penicillin > 2 R
Quinupristin/dalfopristin = 0.25 S
Teicoplanin = 1 S
Tetracycline = 32 R
Trimeth/sulfa <= 0.25/4.75 S
Vancomycin = 1 S
PCR Result
mecA POSITIVE