Age-Related Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Pathogenic Staphylococci and Streptococci in Children With Infected Atopic Dermatitis at a Single-Specialty Center

Fusidic acid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (FRSA) carriage in patients with atopic eczema and pattern of prior topical fusidic acid use

“…This age group had resistance rates of 34%, whereas patients aged 6-10 years or >10 years had rates of 71% and 69%, respectively. This is in agreement with observations by Arkwright et al [12] of age-related differences of antibiotic resistance in children with atopic dermatitis. They found that S. aureus resistance to fusidic acid, methicillin and erythromycin increased from infancy to school age.…”

Change in Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Skin-ColonizingStaphylococcus aureusin Korean Patients with Atopic Dermatitis during Ten-Year Period

“…According to our age-based analysis, for both the lesional skin and nasal cultures, patients younger than 18 years have significantly lower susceptibility rates against erythromycin than do patients older than 18 years. Our results are comparable to those of Arkwright et al 39 , who studied age-related changes in the S. aureus prevalence on affected AD skin. The authors found that children older than 5 years had a higher prevalence of erythromycin-resistant S. aureus (35%) than did younger children (26%).…”

Biomarkers of Th2 polarity are predictive of staphylococcal colonization in subjects with atopic dermatitis

“…Of the 66 subjects from whom cultures were taken, 51 (77%) had S. aureus , consistent with AD colonization rates reported in previous studies 1 . Eight subjects (12%) had methicillin‐resistant S. aureus (MRSA), which is 10‐fold higher than rates of MRSA colonization in the community (1–3%), 11 but comparable with the incidence of MRSA seen among subjects with AD (6–19%) 12 . These MRSA isolates had antimicrobial susceptibilities typical of community‐acquired MRSA 13 …”