Failure of bacteriophage typing to detect an inter-hospital outbreak of methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Zagreb subsequently identified.

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Failure of bacteriophage typing to detect an inter-hospital outbreak of methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Zagreb subsequently identified by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) Arjana Tambic Andrasevic, Eddie G.M. Power, Richard M. Anthony, Smilja Kalenic, Gary L. French Clinical Microbiology and Infection Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 634-642 (October 1999) DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00421.x Copyright © 1999 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 RAPD profiles for the 38 MRSA isolates. The isolates are arranged in gels in numerical order according to Table 1. Numbers of odd lanes are indicated. N, negative control; S, standard DNA (sizes are indicated in bp). Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1999 5, 634-642DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00421.x) Copyright © 1999 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 UMPGA dendrogram derived from RAPD profiles. Numbers indicate isolate identity; types determined by eye are indicated by capital letters. S, size marker (corresponds to Figure 1). Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1999 5, 634-642DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00421.x) Copyright © 1999 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 PFGE profiles for the 38 MRSA isolates. The isolates are arranged in gels in numerical order according to Table 1. Numbers of odd lanes are indicated. S, Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA (sizes are indicated in kbp). L, Lambda concatomers. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1999 5, 634-642DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00421.x) Copyright © 1999 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

Figure 4 UMPGA dendrogram derived from PFGE profiles. Numbers indicate isolate identity; types determined by eye are indicated by capital letters. Sac, size marker (corresponds to Figure 3). Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1999 5, 634-642DOI: (10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00421.x) Copyright © 1999 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions