Monomicrobial necrotising soft tissue infection of the hand caused by a Panton-Valentine leukocidin-negative Staphylococcus aureus strain in a 66-year-old patient with diabetes

BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Jan 17;12(1):e226501. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-226501.

Authors

Caroline Furnon¹, Florence Ader^{1

2}, Tristan Ferry^{1

2}, Anne Conrad^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Lyon, France.
² INSERM U1111, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: dermatology; infections; infectious diseases.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Arthritis, Infectious / complications
Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology*
Arthritis, Infectious / therapy
Bacterial Toxins / genetics*
Chondroitin Sulfates
Collagen
Debridement
Diabetic Ketoacidosis / complications
Drainage
Enterotoxins / genetics*
Exotoxins / genetics*
Hand
Humans
Knee Joint
Leukocidins / genetics*
Male
Necrosis
Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy
Skin Transplantation
Soft Tissue Infections / complications
Soft Tissue Infections / microbiology*
Soft Tissue Infections / therapy
Staphylococcal Infections / complications
Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
Staphylococcal Infections / therapy
Staphylococcus aureus / genetics*
Synovectomy

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial Toxins
Enterotoxins
Exotoxins
Leukocidins
Panton-Valentine leukocidin
integra artificial skin
Chondroitin Sulfates
Collagen