Fatal case of ST8/SCCmecIVl community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Japan
Journal
New Microbes and New Infections
Journal Volume
26
Pages
30_36
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
has emerged in Japan. We present the first reported case of death from CA-MRSA/J. The patient was a 64-year-old woman with iliopsoas abscesses complicated by septic pulmonary embolism and multiorgan abscesses. Vancomycin, arbekacin, daptomycin and rifampicin were ineffective. CA-MRSA/J was resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin and antiseptics and was invasive in a HEp-2 cell assay, in contrast to skin-derived villous-adherent CA-MRSA/J. This suggests the strongly invasive pathotype of CA-MRSA/J.
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