Table 1.

Antibiotic resistance profiles of 538 MSSA and 36 MRSA isolates from patients presenting at the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, as determined by disk diffusion.

	MSSA			MRSA
	Number of isolates that were			Number of isolates that were			P
	S	I or R	Resistance rate (%)	S	I or R	Resistance rate (%)
Penicillin	66	472	87.7	0	36	100	0.11
Erythromycin	469	69	12.8	24	12	33.3	<0.01
Lincomycin	509	29	5.4	29	7	19.4	<0.01
Pristinamycin	538	0	0.0	34	2	2.0	-
Kanamycin	505	33	6.13	26	10	27.8	<0.01
Tobramycin	521	17	3.2	27	9	25.0	<0.01
Gentamicin	532	6	1.12	32	4	11.1	<0.01
Ciprofloxacin	509	29	5.4	31	5	13.9	0.03
Tetracyclin	244	294	54.6	9	27	75.0	0.01
Minocyclin	466	72	13.4	26	10	27.8	0.01
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole	458	80	14.9	22	14	38.9	<0.01
Rifampicin	517	21	3.9	31	5	13.9	0.01
Fusidic acid	493	45	8.4	29	7	19.4	0.02
Chloramphenicol	487	51	9.5	28	8	22.2	0.01
Fosfomycin	530	8	1.5	35	1	2.8	NS
Vancomycin	538	0	0.0	36	0	0.0	-
Teicoplanin	538	0	0.0	36	0	0.0	-