Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing chronic pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Iram EnayetLouis D Saravolatz

Abstract

A young woman presented with pneumonia of a 3-month duration with predominantly nodular pulmonary infiltrates. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was identified in multiple cultures of sputum specimens. According to findings of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, the isolate was identical to USA 300 and carried a type IV Staphylococcus cassette chromosome mec type IV gene and the genes for Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

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Jul 17, 2007·International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents·M S Morgan
Sep 29, 2006·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America·Leonard B JohnsonLouis D Saravolatz
Dec 16, 2006·FEMS Microbiology Letters·Lilia MichailovaNadya Markova

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