Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Causing Chronic Pneumonia | Zendy

Iram Enayet | Zendy; A. Nazeri | Zendy; Leonard B. Johnson | Zendy; Kathleen Riederer | Zendy; Joan Pawlak | Zendy; Louis D. Saravolatz | Zendy

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Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Causing Chronic Pneumonia

Author(s) -

Iram Enayet,

A. Nazeri,

Leonard B. Johnson,

Kathleen Riederer,

Joan Pawlak,

Louis D. Saravolatz

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/501125

Subject(s) - staphylococcus aureus , leukocidin , medicine , panton–valentine leukocidin , pneumonia , microbiology and biotechnology , sputum , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , gene , bacteria , pathology , genotype , biology , tuberculosis , genetics

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.

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