[Sepsis due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in southern Brazil].
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was initially described as a typical microorganism acquired in nosocomial infections. However, over recent years, community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has been a cause of skin and soft-tissue infections. Serious infections such as pneumonia and sepsis can also occur. This report describes a case of sepsis in a child that was complicated by pneumonia secondary to soft tissue lesions that were due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in southern Brazil. The patient was attended at the Emergency Unit with a history of injury caused by lower-limb trauma that evolved to cellulitis, pneumonia and sepsis.
Laboratório de Cocos Gram-positivos, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS. lucianegelatti@hotmail.com
Luciane Cristina
LC
Gelatti
Tereza
T
Sukiennik
Ana Paula
AP
Becker
Fernanda Matsiko
FM
Inoue
Mirian Silva
MS
do Carmo
Fernanda Marques da Silva
FM
Castrucci
Antônio Carlos Campos
AC
Pignatari
Luis Carlos
LC
Ribeiro
Renan Rangel
RR
Bonamigo
Pedro Alves
PA
d'Azevedo
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002981:Clindamycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D005839:Gentamicins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D013207:Staphylococcal Skin Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005839:Gentamicins; D002981:Clindamycin