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