Table 1.

Comparison of Healthcare-Associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) and Community-Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA)

	HA-MRSA	CA-MRSA
Clinical spectrum	Respiratory tract infections Urinary tract infections Bloodstream infections	Skin and soft tissue infections
Resistance pattern	Resistant to multiple antibiotics	Susceptible to multiple antibiotics
Genotype	Mainly SCCmec type types I – III	Mainly SCCmec type IV
Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)	PVL absent	PVL present

^*Adapted with permission from Elsevier from Diederen et al.(31).