Table 2: Frequency of MRSA isolation from clinical specimen and the distribution of the agr groups, the spa clusters, SCCmec types and Pulse field gel electrophoresis clusters among the isolates.

spa typing
Clusters A
23.5% (44/187)		 B
22.9%
(43/187)		 C
3.7% (7/187)		 D
10.2% (19/187)		 E
13.4% (25/187)		 F
1.6% (3/187)		 G
8.6% (16/187)		 H
2.1% (4/187)		 I
1.6% (3/187)		 J
3.2% (6/187)		 K
4.3% (8/187)		 L
2.7% (5/187)		 Outliers 2.1% (4/187) Untypeable
2.6%
(5/187)
agr typing
agr types agrI
84.4%
(163/193)		 agrII
4.7%
(9/193)		 agrIII
7.3%
(14/193)		 agrI and III
3.6%
(7/193)
SCCmec typing
SCCmec types SCCmec type I
1.1% (1/92)		 SCCmec type II
65.2% (60/92)		 SCCmercury
33A�7% (31/92)		 SCCmectype IVa
4% (2/50)		 SCCmectype IVb
2% (1/50)		 SCCmectype IVd
94% (47/50)		 SCCmec type II+IVc
4.7% (9/193)		 Not typeable
22.3% (43/193)
Classification HA-MRSA 47.7% (92/193) CA-MRSA 25.9% (50/193) Unknown Unknown
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis typing
Pulsotypes A
57.6%
(110/191)		 A1-A6
29.3%
(56/191)		 B
4%
(8/191)		 C
0.5% (1/191)		 D
0.5% (1/191)		 E
0.5% (1/191)		 F
0.5% (1/191)		 G
0.5%
(1/191)		 H
0.5%
(1/191)		 I
2%
(4/191)		 J
5%
(9/191)		 K
0.5%
(1/191)

NB: The table is not meant to show correlations between the typing methods.