First Report of Fatal Infection Caused by Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Clone in a Collegiate Athlete

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is prevalent around the world and is a causative agent of skin and soft tissue infections in healthy individuals. Particularly, Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive CA-MRSA strains occasionally cause life-threatening infe...

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Autores principales: Yokomori, Ryohei, Tsurukiri, Junya, Moriya, Mariko, Yamanaka, Hiroshi, Kobayashi, Takehito, Nakaminami, Hidemasa, Takadama, Shunsuke, Noguchi, Norihisa, Matsumoto, Tetsuya, Arai, Takao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Medical Association 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33324780
http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2019-0054
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Sumario:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is prevalent around the world and is a causative agent of skin and soft tissue infections in healthy individuals. Particularly, Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive CA-MRSA strains occasionally cause life-threatening infections, such as septic pulmonary emboli (SPE) and infectious endocarditis. However, severe infections caused by PVL-positive CA-MRSA strains have rarely been reported in Japan. For the first time, this study reports the case of a 20-year-old Japanese college athlete with life-threatening PVL-positive CA-MRSA USA300 clone infection, including sepsis, SPE, and skin and soft tissue infections with iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis.

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