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To investigate the epidemiology and features of MRSA in burn wound infections, we conducted a 10-year retrospective study on MRSA isolated from burn patients with burn wound infections from southeast China from 2013 to 2022.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>One hundred MRSA isolates (10 isolates each year) from burn wound infection among burn patients from 2013 to 2022 were randomly selected and enrolled. In addition to the clinical data of the 100 burn patients, MRSA isolates were characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility testing, detection of toxin genes, and molecular typing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The median time from the onset of burns and admission to MRSA detected was 13 and 5 days, respectively. No MRSA isolate was found resistant to quinupristin\/dalfopristin, linezolid, and vancomycin. Toxin gene <jats:italic>seg<\/jats:italic> was found most frequently (90%) followed by <jats:italic>sea<\/jats:italic> (70%) and <jats:italic>eta<\/jats:italic> (64%). CC8 (74%), ST239 (70%), and SCC<jats:italic>mec<\/jats:italic> III (72%) were the most common CC, ST, and SCC<jats:italic>mec<\/jats:italic> types, respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>ST239-III (70%) was the predominant clone found in MRSA from burn wound infection among burn patients in southeast China. ST239-III was less found from 2018 to 2022. 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