Table 6. Resistance phenotypes of MRSA CC398 originating from pigs and from humans at 47 farms investigated from September 2007 – December 2008 in Germany.

Resistance phenotype	Number of isolates
pen, oxa, ote, ery, cli	276 30%
pen, oxa, ote	163 18%
pen, oxa, ote, sxt	110 12%
pen, oxa, ote, sxt, gen	110 12%
pen, oxa, ote, ery, cli, sxt	105 11%
pen, oxa, ote, sxt, gen, ery, cli	96 10.4%
pen, oxa, ote, ery, cli, gen	15 1.6%
pen, oxa, ote, cip	14 1.5%
pen, oxa, ote, ery, cli, cip	8 0.9%
pen, oxa, ote, gen	7 0.8%
pen, oxa, ote, cip, mfl	7 0.8%
pen, oxa, ote, ery, cli, sxt, cip, mfl	7 0.8%
pen, oxa, ote, cli, cip	3 0.3%
	921

CIP = ciprofloxacin, CLI = clindamycin, ERY = erythromycin, GEN = gentamicin,

MFL = moxifloxacin, OTE = oxytetracycline, OXA = oxacillin, SXT = cotrimoxazole.