Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 62, Issue 3 , Pages 255-262, November 2008

Molecular surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat fingerprinting (formerly multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis) and spa typing in a hierarchic approach

National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland

Received 17 August 2007; accepted 25 June 2008. published online 19 August 2008.

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PII: S0732-8893(08)00308-8

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.06.019

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 62, Issue 3 , Pages 255-262, November 2008