title: Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300.
abstract: We report a fatal case of brain abscess caused by infection due to a community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain (USA300) in a 37-year-old incarcerated woman with a history of furunculosis and injection drug use. Community-onset pyogenic brain abscess should be added to the growing list of life-threatening invasive infections caused by epidemic community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1361, USA. csifri@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Costi D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Sifri
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Helm
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Stemper
authors.forename: Sanjay K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shukla
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D011329:Prisoners; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification