Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing chronic pneumonia.
case_report · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Community-Acquired Infections
- Methicillin Resistance
- Pneumonia, Staphylococcal
- Staphylococcus aureus