Prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility and genotypic characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus in Tanzania: a systematic review

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Table 4 S. aureus genetic diversity as described by the reviewed publications

Host	Sample type	Resistant gene	Virulence factor	spa Type	MLST	References
Human	Wound, pus, nasal swabs (24 MRSA strains from previous studies)	mecA (100%)	pvl (16.7%)	t7231, t690, t064, t104,t1855, t7237 t186, t667	ST88, ST1719, ST8,ST1820	Moremi et al. (2012)
Human	Blood, sputum, wound/pus	mecA (33.3%)	pvl (16.7%), tst (6.7%) both in non mecA isolates	ND	ST8, ST1, ST152, ST1719, ST15, ST1847, ST188, ST22, ST239, ST30, ST5, ST580, ST6, ST97	Kumburu et al. (2018)
Human	Nasal swabs	mecA and mecC (None detected)	NS	t714, t148, t084, t002, t223, t314, t311, t015, t451, t690, t1849, t2030, t10779*	ST15, ST18, ST72, ST22, ST5, ST121, ST231, ST45, ST8	Katakweba et al. (2016)
Pig	Nasal swab	mecA and mecC (None detected)	NS	t131	ST80	Katakweba et al. (2016)
Dog	Nasal swabs	mecA and mecC (None detected)	NS	t084, t127, t223, t314, t267, t508, t1476	ST15, ST18, ST1, ST22, ST121,	Katakweba et al. (2016)
Human	Nasal and SSTI swabs	Mec A (exact information disclosed)	pvl (8.3%)	t148,t355, t002, t4353, t095, t223, t311, t690, t1257	ST88, ST3118, ST152, ST5, ST72, ST508, ST22, ST4266^*, ST612	Moremi et al. (2019)
Human	Nasal, SSTI swabs	dfrA, dfrG and dfrK. dfrG detected by (37%)	NS	ND	ND	Nurjadi et al. (2014)