Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300.
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.
Sifri
Costi D
CD
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1361, USA. csifri@virginia.edu
Park
Jennifer
J
Helm
Gregory A
GA
Stemper
Mary E
ME
Shukla
Sanjay K
SK
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