. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 15.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Jun 1;39(1):47–54. doi: 10.1086/421090

Table 1.

Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic resistance profile.

Isolate, source	No. of patient isolates	Agent, % of resistant isolates
Isolate, source	No. of patient isolates	Erythromycin	Tetracycline	Ciprofloxacin	Clindamycin	Gentamicin	TMP-SMZ
MSSA
Outpatient or person hospitalized for ≤72 h	4532	29.9	17.2	2.0	2.3	1.5	7.4
Person hospitalized for >72 h	769	23.2	13.1	1.3	2.1	1.2	8.3
MRSA
Outpatient or person hospitalized for ≤72 h	811	67.3	12.2	44.3	43.5	26.6	15.8
Person hospitalized for >72 h	290	78.6	10.1	64.8	65.1	42.1	18.4

NOTE. MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus; TMP-SMZ, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.