Table 1

Susceptibility tests/phenotype/lnu(A) gene	100 Sau
Susceptibility tests/phenotype/lnu(A) gene	57 MSSA	43 MRSA
S: ERY, CLI and LIN /susceptible/ negative	52	29
R: ERY, CLI and LIN /constituve MLSB / negative	1	5
R: ERY and inducible R to CLI and LIN/ inducible MLSB / negative	3	8
S: ERY and CLI; R: LIN /L phenotype/ positive (Figure 1)	1	1

Table 1: Characteristics of the Staphylococcus aureus strains included in this study. Sau: Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA: Methicillin- Susceptible Sau; MRSA: Methicillin-Resistant Sau; S: Susceptible; R: Resistance; ERY: Erythromycin; CLI: Clindamycin; LIN: Lincomycin; MLSB: Macrolides-Lincosamides-Streptogramin B.