A six-member SNP assay on the iPlex MassARRAY platform provides a rapid and affordable alternative for typing major African Staphylococcus aureus types.

This study demonstrated that iPlex MassARRAY can be adapted as a useful surveillance tool to provide a faster, more affordable and fairly accurate method for genotyping African S. aureus isolates to identify clinically significant genotypes, MRSA strains and emerging strain types.