“…Furthermore, a PCR was performed to detect the presence of the cfr gene (Kehrenberg and Schwarz, 2006). The presence of genes associated with methicillin [mecA], aminoglycosides [ant(6)-Ia, aac(6 )-Ie-aph(2 )-Ia, aph(3 )-IIIa, and ant(4 )], lincomycin [linA, linB], and chloramphenicol resistance [catA] was analysed by PCR (van de Klundert and Vliegenthart, 1993;Bozdogan et al, 1999;Lina et al, 1999;Aarestrup et al, 2000;Kondo et al, 2007). The presence of the staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) type was determined by multiplex PCR assays (Kondo et al, 2007), and the detection of ica operon and IS256 element was performed by PCR (Ziebuhr et al, 1999).…”