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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 85-87Publisher
KOREAN SOC MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1210.10022
Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus; outbreak; pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); multilocus sequence typing (MLST)
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- Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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An outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus infections occurred in a university with an enrollment of 80 students in the city of Daejon, Republic of Korea. All nine S. aureus isolates from patients (n = 7), staff members (n = 1), and the fried chicken served as the lunch (n = 1) harbored the enterotoxin A gene and showed an identical antibiotic-resistant profile, PFGE banding pattern (STAS16.001), and sequence type, ST 6. These results suggested that the outbreak was associated with eating the fried chicken that had been handled by an infected staff member. This case report demonstrated a practical approach to identifying the source and transmission of an infection.
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