Epidemiological characterization of clinical isolates of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus through multilocus sequence typing and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing in Northwest Iran.

The ST numbers were non-repetitive. CC8 as a pandemic clone and an individual lineage and clinically significant clade was reported as the most prevalent clonal complex. It is essential periodic evaluations of antibiotic susceptibility patterns and study the evolutionary characteristics of medical-challenging microorganisms in particular MRSA to effectively treat and restrict the outbreaks.