Of 8437 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected from 143 medical centers in the United States from January 2012 to December 2014, 7116 were reported as community-acquired (CA) and 1321 were reported as and hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA.
Overall, susceptibility rates were generally lower among HA-MRSA compared to CA-MRSA strains, especially for clindamycin (44.6 vs. 66.1%) and levofloxacin (21.4 vs. 35.5%).
Susceptibility rates were lower among isolates from pneumonia compared to skin and soft tissue infections and bacteremia.
Ceftaroline was broadly active against 98.0% of CA-MRSA and 94.3% of HA-MRSA (MIC50/90, 1 μg/mL for both; no resistant isolate) overall, with little variation among infection type subsets.