Treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: Importance of high vancomycin minumum inhibitory concentrations

Table 1 Staphylococcus aureus glycopeptide minimum inhibitory concentration cut-off values (μg/mL) as defined by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (determined by broth microdilution)

Antibiotic	CLSI (2011)			EUCAST (2011)
	S	VISA	R	S	R
Vancomycin	≤ 2	4-8	≥ 16	≤ 2	> 2
Teicoplanin	≤ 8	-	≥ 32	≤ 2	> 2

CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; S: Sensitive; VISA: Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus; R: Resistant.