Abstract
A 17-year-old female basketball player suffered from cutaneous abscesses, which complicated into a systemic progression to osteomyelitis and simultaneous iliopsoas and piriformis abscesses, adjacent to the sacroiliac joint. The causative agent was community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with multilocus sequence type 30, spa19, and SCCmecIVc. The clinical importance of this genotype is discussed.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Abscess / microbiology*
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Adolescent
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Bacterial Typing Techniques
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Community-Acquired Infections / complications
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Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
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DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
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DNA, Bacterial / genetics
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Female
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Genotype
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Humans
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Methicillin Resistance*
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Osteomyelitis / microbiology*
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Pelvis*
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
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Staphylococcal Skin Infections / complications
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Staphylococcal Skin 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*