Asymptomatic Carriage of Sequence Type 398, spa Type t571 Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an Urban Jail: a Newly Emerging, Transmissible Pathogenic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sequence type 398 (ST398) Staphylococcus aureus, frequently carried by livestock, has caused severe human infections and often carries transmissible antibiotic resistance genes. Among methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates colonizing Dallas County Jail detainees, 13.2%were ST398, spa type t571, and were genetically similar to human colonization isolates fromNew York, Chi-cago, and the Dominican Republic. Sequence type 398 (ST398) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus (MRSA) is often transmitted among livestock and ani-mal handlers but is uncommonly associated with human disease in the United States (1). We unexpectedly identified ST398/t571 methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) as the most common ge-netic background among MSSA isolates colonizing detainees in theDallas County Jail. In this study, we compared the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pulsotypes of isolates from the Dallas jail and from a single patient in Chicago with those of strains isolated in previous studies. Recognized first in Europe (2–9), ST398 MRSA has been isolated in the United States (10), Canada (11), and Latin
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".