%0 Journal Article %A Bloemendaal, AL %A Fluit, AC %A Jansen, WT %A Vriens, MR %A Ferry, T %A Amorim, JM %A Pascual, A %A Stefani, S %A Papaparaskevas, J %A Borel Rinkes, IH %A Verhoef, J %T Colonization with multiple Staphylococcus aureus strains among patients in European intensive care units. %D 2009 %@ 0899-823X %U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/476 %X Patients and healthy individuals intermittently and inconsistentlycarry different methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) subtypes. In the present study, we assessed the clonality of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) andMRSA strains in patients admitted to 1 of 6 intensive care units (ICUs), using spa typing and multilocus variable number of tandem repeats analysis (MLVA). %K Staphylococcus aureus %K Methicillin-resistant %K Intensive care %K Resistente a la meticilina %K Cuidados intensivos %~