Fatal Brain Abscess due to Community‐Associated Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300
1Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, 2Department of Medicine, and 3Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville; and 4Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin
We report a fatal case of brain abscess caused by infection due to a community‐associated methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain (USA300) in a 37‐year‐old incarcerated woman with a history of furunculosis and injection drug use. Community‐onset pyogenic brain abscess should be added to the growing list of life‐threatening invasive infections caused by epidemic community‐acquired methicillin‐resistant S. aureus.
Received 6 June 2007; accepted 19 July 2007; electronically published 21 September 2007.
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