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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2018 Aug 23;16:17–27. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2018.08.014

Table 2.

Reported MRSA prevalence and resistance proportions by country (2000–2016)

Prevalence (%)
Range (min, max)
Resistance proportion (%)
Range (min, max)
Country Infections# Carriage Infections# Carriage
American Samoa  8.0*  -  17.4*  -
Australia  2.2, 26.0  1.21, 16.00  7.25, 82.50  3.10, 50.00
Cambodia  -  3.50, 4.10  -  -
China  0.5, 55.30  0, 10.50  2.62, 98.40  0, 47.83
Hong Kong  0.22, 28.00  0.52, 39.06  2.00, 84.80  1.12*
Indonesia  -  6.04, 9.33  -  0, 21.43
Japan  0.70, 41.00  0.78, 30.20  24.35, 72.00  14.81, 88.89
Korea  0.58, 73.00  0, 36.10  10.59, 81.44  0, 71.92
Laos  0  -  0, 7.30)  -
Malaysia  1.01, 32.00  0, 2.10  7.90, 60.00  0, 6.67
Mongolia  -  -  8.8*  -
Myanmar  0.15, 2.97  -  4.35, 38.73  -
New Zealand  0.50, 9.00  8.2*  1.54, 2.94  14.6*
Papua New Guinea  2.6*  -  75.0*  -
Philippines  59.0*  -  30.10, 80.00  -
Singapore  4.80, 52.00  1.79, 20.20  70.0*  -
Taiwan  0, 29.00  0.60, 32.20  0, 97.30  5.26, 77.03
Thailand  0, 53.00  0, 3.60  0, 71.40  0, 6.67
Vietnam  0, 3.00  7.90, 8.59  0, 90.00  65.5*
#

Infections include hospital-associated (HA), community-associated (CA), mixed (HA and CA), and livestock/animal-associated MRSA infections

*

Only one observation recorded

-: no data available