Unusual skin sepsis due to a strain of multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus.
A strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to as many as nine distinct antibiotics has shown unusally high virulence as indicated by its ability to cause an epidemic of furunculosis amongst hospital nurses.
D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D003428:Cross Infection; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005260:Female; D005667:Furunculosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D009666:Nose; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000382:microbiology*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D014774:Virulence