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Community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

Community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

CA-MRSA Infection

Year Number1 Mid-year population2 Cases / 100,000 population Number (%) resistant to mupirocin
2007 173 6 916 300 2.5 Data not available
2008 282 6 957 800 4.1 Data not available
2009 368 6 972 800 5.3 Data not available
2010 495 7 024 200 7.0 Data not available
2011 624 7 071 600 8.8 Data not available
2012 815 7 150 100 11.4 Data not available
2013 990 7 178 900 13.8 Data not available
2014 997 7 229 500 13.8 6 (0.60)
2015 1046 7 291 300 14.3 6 (0.57)
2016 1167 7 336 600 15.9 4 (0.34)
2017 1258 7 391 700 17.0 5 (0.40)
2018 1218 7 451 000 16.3 7 (0.57)
2019 1236 7 507 400 16.5 4 (0.32)
2020 810 7 481 800 10.8 7 (0.86)
2021 582 7 413 100 7.8 1 (0.17)
2022 416 7 346 100 5.7 3 (0.72)
2023 469 7 536 100 6.2 4 (0.85)

1https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/static/24012.html

2https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/so20.jsp

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Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern

Antimicrobial Year
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Clindamycin Cases tested 774 534 422 301 351
% Susceptible 66.9 68.2 67.8 71.4 68.4
% Resistant 33.1 31.6 32.0 28.6 31.3
Erythromycin Cases tested 852 568 533 381 429
% Susceptible 47.8 52.5 52.9 57.0 51.0
% Resistant 48.2 45.4 43.5 40.9 47.1
Doxycycline Cases tested 212 128 90 91 64
% Susceptible 87.3 85.2 91.1 89.0 85.9
% Resistant 3.3 3.1 1.1 7.7 4.7
Minocycline Cases tested 129 88 74 88 63
% Susceptible 100 100 100 90.9 96.8
% Resistant 0 0 0 8.0 3.2
Gentamicin Cases tested 788 497 453 326 371
% Susceptible 90.2 88.1 90.9 89.6 86.5
% Resistant 8.1 10.1 6.8 8.6 12.1
Co-trimoxazole Cases tested 981 620 458 328 384
% Susceptible 97.3 97.6 97.4 97.3 98.7
% Resistant 2.4 1.8 2.2 2.4 1.3
Total cases notified in year 1,236 810 582 416 469
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