Clinical features and molecular characteristics of childhood community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a medical center in northern Taiwan, 2012

Table 3 Comparison of antibiotic resistance between 181 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 2012 and 102 CA-MRSA isolates from 2004 to 2005

Year	Total	Penicillin	Erythromycin (n = 169) ^*	Clindamycin (n = 169) ^**	Fusidic acid	Trimethoprim /sulfamethoxazole***	Tigecycline	Linezolid	Vancomycin	Teicoplanin
2012	181	181(100)	137(81.1)	134(79.3)	1(0.6)	1(0.6)	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)	0(0)
2004–2005 [8]	102	102(100)	96(94.1)	94(92.2)	-	5(4.9)	-	-	0(0)	0(0)

All the isolates were resistant to penicillin while susceptible to tigecycline, linezolid, vancomycin and teicoplanin
*p = 0.003
**p = 0.01
***p = 0.024

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