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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infection. 2015 Mar 25;43(6):751–754. doi: 10.1007/s15010-015-0763-0

Table 1.

Ceftaroline use in patients with infective endocarditis (IE)/complicated bacteremia due to Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin, vancomycin or daptomycin.

Daptomycin-susceptible Daptomycin-non-susceptible (DNS)

MRSAa Author N
(total)
N
(IE)
Comment Author N
(total)
N
(IE)
Comment

Ho [6] 5 1 Jongsma [7] 1 1
Polenakovik [10] 30 8 1 case with transient DNS VISA
Tattevin [11] 5 5 Ceftaroline used with daptomycin in 1/5
case
Lin [13] 10 6
Fabre [12] 29 15 Ceftaroline used with TMP/SMX in 23/29
cases; used with daptomycin in 2/29 cases
Sakoulas [9] 20 10 Ceftaroline used with daptomycin in all 20
cases

VISA Author N
(total)
N
(IE)
Comment Author N
(total)
N
(IE)
Comment

Ho [6] 1 1 Polenakovik [10] 1 1 Case with transient DNS VISA
Sakoulas [9] 2 1 Ceftaroline used with daptomycin in both
cases
a

VISA cases not included In the MRSA category.

Abbreviations: MRSA: methicillin resistant Stop/iy/ococcus aureus; VISA: vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA: methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSE: = methicillin resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis; IE: infective endocarditis [includes definite, probable and possible cases]; TMP/SMX: trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.