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1 November 2007

Volume 45, Number 9
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;45:e113–e117
1058-4838/2007/4509-00E1$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/522171
BRIEF REPORT

Fatal Brain Abscess due to Community‐Associated Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300

Costi D. Sifri,1,2

Jennifer Park,2

Gregory A. Helm,3

Mary E. Stemper,4 and

Sanjay K. Shukla4

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.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Costi D. Sifri, Div. of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia Health System, P.O. Box 801361, Charlottesville, VA 22908‐1361 ().

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