Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300

Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Nov 1;45(9):e113-7. doi: 10.1086/522171. Epub 2007 Sep 21.

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

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Abscess / diagnosis
  • Brain Abscess / microbiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / diagnosis
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Methicillin Resistance*
  • Prisoners
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / classification*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
  • Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification