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.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Brain Abscess / diagnosis
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Brain Abscess / microbiology*
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Community-Acquired Infections / diagnosis
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Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
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Fatal Outcome
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Female
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Humans
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Methicillin Resistance*
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Prisoners
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis
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Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
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Staphylococcus aureus / classification*
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Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
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Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification