Molecular and phenotypic characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a tertiary hospital in the Philippines

Table 4 Carriage of the PVL genes lukF-lukS among MRSA isolates

Clinical sample	Outpatient	Inpatient	Total
Wound, wound discharge, abscess	22 (91.6 %)	11 (64.7 %)	33 (80.4 %)
Respiratory tract	1 (4.2 %)	1 (5.9 %)	2 (4.9 %)
Blood, bile	1 (4.2 %)	3 (17.6 %)	4 (9.8 %)
Eye, mouth, ear discharge	0	2 (11.8 %)	2 (4.9 %)
Total	24 (58.5 %)	17 (41.5 %)	41

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