A Preliminary Guideline for the Assignment of Methicillin‐Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> to a Canadian Pulsed‐Field Gel Electrophoresis Epidemic Type Using <i>spa</i> Typing

Abstract

The high concordance of spa types with PFGE epidemic types using this guideline demonstrated the feasibility of spa typing as a more rapid and less technically demanding alternative typing method for MRSA in Canada.