Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing chronic pneumonia

Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Apr 1;42(7):e57-60. doi: 10.1086/501125. Epub 2006 Feb 28.

Abstract

A young woman presented with pneumonia of a 3-month duration with predominantly nodular pulmonary infiltrates. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was identified in multiple cultures of sputum specimens. According to findings of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, the isolate was identical to USA 300 and carried a type IV Staphylococcus cassette chromosome mec type IV gene and the genes for Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Chronic Disease
  • Community-Acquired Infections / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Methicillin Resistance*
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / etiology*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / classification
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
  • Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
  • Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*