Review Article

The History of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Brazil

Table 1

Reports of isolation of MRSA from the 1980s to the 2010s in Brazil.

Region/location1980s1990s2000s2010s
naRefsbnRefsnRefsnRefs

North
 BelemNRcNR1[30]NRNRNRNR
 ManausNRNR1[39]1[81]NRNR
 PalmasNRNRNRNRNRNR1[127]

Northeast
 Joao PessoaNRNR2[27, 36]NRNR1[128]
 ItabunaNRNRNRNRNRNR1[129]
 SalvadorNRNR1[130]4[60, 84, 131, 132]NRNR
 Vitoria da ConquistaNRNRNRNRNRNR3[102, 114, 133]
 CaicoNRNRNRNRNRNR1[134]
 NatalNRNR2[135, 136]2[137, 138]1[139]
 TeresinaNRNR2[33, 57]NRNR1[140]
 RecifeNRNRNRNR3[47, 141, 142]4[118, 143145]
 FortalezaNRNR2[135, 136]NRNRNRNR

South
 ViamaoNRNRNRNR1[146]NRNR
 Porto AlegreNRNR3[39, 147, 148]16[61, 69, 80, 82, 83, 88, 89, 98, 146, 149155]4[156159]
 Santa MariaNRNRNRNRNRNR1[160]
 Ponta GrossaNRNR1[161]1[161]NRNR
 MaringaNRNRNRNR1[77]NRNR
 LondrinaNRNR2[135, 136]NRNR3[104, 105, 162]
 BlumenauNRNRNRNRNRNR2[110, 117]
 FlorianopolisNRNRNRNR1[154]1[117]
 CuritibaNRNRNRNR1[163]NRNR

Southeast
 Rio de Janeiro11714[17, 28, 29, 34, 38, 39, 4850, 53, 54, 56, 135, 136]24[29, 47, 6466, 73, 83, 86, 87, 9092, 95, 96, 99, 124, 151, 164170]16[103, 112, 113, 115, 116, 125, 171180]
 NiteroiNRNR1[39]NRNR8[125, 181187]
 São PauloNRNR5[31, 32, 39, 42, 188]13[72, 75, 85, 93, 151, 154, 189195]12[106, 107, 109, 111, 119, 186, 196201]
 CarapicuibaNRNRNRNR1[202]NRNR
 BarretosNRNRNRNR1[203]NRNR
 BauruNRNRNRNR5[63, 101, 204206]1[108]
 Ribeirao PretoNRNRNRNR2[97, 207]2[208, 209]
 BotucatuNRNR1[55]3[62, 71, 210]4[14, 211213]
 AvareNRNRNRNRNRNR1[214]
 Santo AndreNRNRNRNR1[215]NRNR
 CampinasNRNR4[18, 37, 44, 216]2[97, 217]1[218]
 Pouso AlegreNRNRNRNRNRNR1[219]
 UberabaNRNRNRNR1[220]NRNR
 UberlandiaNRNR3[49, 50, 52]4[221224]3[225227]
 Belo HorizonteNRNRNRNRNRNR1[67]
 VitoriaNRNRNRNRNRNR1[228]

Midwest
 Campo GrandeNRNRNRNRNRNR1[229]
 GoianiaNRNRNRNR5[70, 76, 94, 230, 231]1[232]
 BrasiliaNRNR1[135, 136]1[154]NRNR

UnknownNRNR4[51, 58, 233, 234]3[100, 193, 235]NRNR

aNumbers of reports, breferences, cnonreported (NR).