Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing chronic pneumonia.
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.
Enayet
Iram
I
St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Nazeri
Ali
A
Johnson
Leonard B
LB
Riederer
Kathleen
K
Pawlak
Joan
J
Saravolatz
Louis D
LD
D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000209:etiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*