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Community-acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 Infection, Italy
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 15, Iss 5, Pp 845-847 (2009), Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009.
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Abstract
- To the Editor: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has been identified in livestock animals (particularly pigs), veterinarians, and animal farm workers (1,2). CA-MRSA strains from pigs have been classified most frequently within the multilocus sequence type (ST) 398 (1) and have been rarely identified as a cause of invasive infection in humans (1,3,4). We report a case of invasive infection in a pig-farm worker in Cremona, Italy, an intensive animal farming area; the infection was caused by MRSA of swine origin, ST398. The case-patient was a 58-year-old man admitted to a surgical department in Cremona, Italy, on July 30, 2007, because of a 1-week history of fever and intense pain in his right buttock. He worked on a pig farm, was obese, consumed high volumes of wine (1.5 L/day), was taking medication for hypertension, and had not had recent (
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Staphylococcus aureus
Meticillin
Pyomyositis
Epidemiology
letter
lcsh:Medicine
Mupirocin
bloodstream infection
MRSA
medicine.disease_cause
Staphylococcal infections
Antimicrobial resistance
ST398
Microbiology
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
chemistry.chemical_compound
Medicine
lcsh:RC109-216
Letters to the Editor
staphylococci
business.industry
SCCmec
lcsh:R
Clindamycin
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Infectious Diseases
chemistry
pig strain
Vancomycin
business
medicine.drug
community acquired
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a64d63119acce97821850ba8b0a1f111