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. 2014 Feb 7;18(2):187–195. doi: 10.1016/j.bjid.2013.11.005

Table 1.

Summary of ceftaroline activity tested against pathogen groups from Latin America (2011).

Organisms (no. tested) Number of isolates (cumulative %) inhibited at ceftaroline MIC (mg/L) of:
MIC50 MIC90
≤0.015 0.03 0.06 0.12 0.25 0.5 1 2 4 8 16 32 >32
Staphylococcus aureus (956) 2 (0.2) 41 (4.5) 489 (55.6) 103 (66.4) 164 (83.6) 157 (100.0) 0.25 2
 MSSA (547) 2 (0.4) 41 (7.9) 485 (96.5) 19 (100.0) 0.25 0.25
 MRSA (409) 4 (1.0) 84 (21.5) 164 (61.6) 157 (100.0) 1 2



Streptococcus pneumoniae (249) 140 (56.2) 25 (66.3) 22 (75.1) 53 (96.4) 9 (100.0) ≤0.015 0.12
 Penicillin-susceptible (MIC, ≤2 mg/L) (215) 140 (65.1) 25 (76.7) 22 (87.0) 27 (99.5) 1 (100.0) ≤0.015 0.12
 Penicillin-intermediate (MIC, 4 mg/L) (33) 25 (75.8) 8 (100.0) 0.12 0.25
 Penicillin-resistant (MIC, ≥8 mg/L) (1) 1 (100.0) 0.12



S. pyogenes (66) 65 (98.5) 1 (100.0) ≤0.015 ≤0.015
S. agalactiae (78) 71 (91.0) 7 (100.0) ≤0.015 ≤0.015
Group C Streptococcus (5) 5 (100.0) ≤0.015



Haemophilus influenzae (126) 96 (76.2) 25 (96.0) 3 (98.4) 2 (100.0) ≤0.015 0.03
 β-Lactamase negative (89) 76 (85.4) 12 (98.9) 1 (100.0) ≤0.015 0.03
 β-Lactamase positive (37) 20 (54.1) 13 (89.2) 2 (94.6) 2 (100.0) ≤0.015 0.06



Haemophilus parainfluenzae (6) 5 (83.3) 1 (100.0) ≤0.015



Escherichia coli (518) 2 (0.4) 41 (8.3) 103 (28.2) 88 (45.2) 42 (53.3) 18 (56.8) 21 (60.8) 8 (62.4) 4 (63.1) 6 (64.3) 3 (64.9) 3 (65.4) 179 (100.0) 0.25 >32
 Non-ESBL-phenotype (323) 2 (0.6) 41 (13.3) 103 (45.2) 88 (72.4) 42 (85.4) 17 (90.7) 20 (96.9) 8 (99.4) 1 (99.7) 1 (100.0) 0.12 0.5
 ESBL-phenotype (195) 1 (0.5) 1 (1.0) 0 (1.0) 3 (2.6) 5 (5.1) 3 (6.7) 3 (8.2) 179 (100.0) >32 >32



Klebsiella pneumoniae (379) 1 (0.3) 13 (3.7) 81 (25.1) 50 (38.3) 16 (42.5) 8 (44.6) 5 (45.9) 4 (47.0) 2 (47.5) 4 (48.5) 3 (49.3) 9 (51.7) 183 (100.0) 32 >32
 Non-ESBL-phenotype (177) 1 (0.6) 13 (7.9) 81 (53.7) 50 (81.9) 16 (91.0) 8 (95.5) 5 (98.3) 3 (100.0) 0.06 0.25
 ESBL-phenotype (202) 1 (0.5) 2 (1.5) 4 (3.5) 3 (5.0) 9 (9.4) 183 (100.0) >32 >32



Klebsiella oxytoca (40) 1 (2.5) 7 (20.0) 9 (42.5) 8 (62.5) 0 (62.5) 0 (62.5) 0 (62.5) 0 (62.5) 0 (62.5) 2 (67.5) 1 (70.0) 12 (100.0) 0.25 >32
 Non-ESBL-phenotype (25) 1 (4.0) 7 (32.0) 9 (68.0) 8 (100.0) 0.12 0.25
 ESBL-phenotype (15) 2 (13.3) 1 (20.0) 12 (100.0) >32 >32



Morganella morganii (61) 1 (1.6) 10 (18.0) 8 (31.1) 7 (42.6) 7 (54.1) 2 (57.4) 1 (59.0) 3 (63.9) 2 (67.2) 3 (72.1) 4 (78.7) 13 (100.0) 0.5 >32