Increasing Role of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Infections in the United States: A 10-Year Trend of Replacement and Expansion

Abstract

MRSA not only replaced methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates as a percentage of all S. aureus isolates, but its hospitalization rates increased over and above the replacement process. This trend also applies to CA-MRSA over hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA.