Number of isolates detected and molecular characterization of SA and SP analyzed in this study.

<p>MSSA, methicillin-susceptible <i>S. aureus</i>; MSSP, methicillin-susceptible <i>S. pseudintermedius</i>.</p>a<p>Clones were designated as follows: bacterial species (MSSA or MSSP)-MLST-PFGE profile.</p>b<p>Genes physically linked are displayed in square brackets and those possibly linked based on bibliography are shown in brackets.</p>c<p>Inducible clindamycin resistance.