title: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing chronic pneumonia.
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.
authors.affiliation: St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Iram
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Enayet
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nazeri
authors.forename: Leonard B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Riederer
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pawlak
authors.forename: Louis D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Saravolatz
mesh_terms: 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*