RT Journal Article T1 Colonization with multiple Staphylococcus aureus strains among patients in European intensive care units. A1 Bloemendaal, AL A1 Fluit, AC A1 Jansen, WT A1 Vriens, MR A1 Ferry, T A1 Amorim, JM A1 Pascual, A A1 Stefani, S A1 Papaparaskevas, J A1 Borel Rinkes, IH A1 Verhoef, J K1 Staphylococcus aureus K1 Methicillin-resistant K1 Intensive care K1 Resistente a la meticilina K1 Cuidados intensivos AB 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). PB The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America SN 0899-823X YR 2009 FD 2009-09 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/476 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/476 LA en NO Bloemendaal AL, Fluit AC, Jansen WT, Vriens MR, Ferry T, Amorim JM, et al. Colonization with multiple Staphylococcus aureus strains among patients in European intensive care units. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 Sep;30(9):918-20. DS RISalud RD Apr 17, 2025