Fatal bacteraemic pneumonia due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 546-548

  Chua, Ai Ping ^a   Lee, K H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bacteraemic pneumonia; Community acquired methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus; Pneumonia; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTAZIDIME; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; SINGAPORE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33745117247     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Lowy FD. Staphylococcus aureus infections. N Engl J Med 1998; 339:520-32.
2. Centers for Disease Control. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections-Michigan. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkyl Rep 1981; 30:185-7.
3. Chambers HF. The changing epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus? Emerg Infect Dis 2001; 7:178-82.
4. Gorak EJ, Yamada SM, Brown JD. Community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitalized adults and children without known risk factors. Clin Infect Dis 1999; 19:797-800.
5. Herold BC, Immergluck LC, Maranan MC, et al. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children with no identified predisposing risk. JAMA 1998; 279:593-8.
6. Gillet Y, Issartel B, Vanhems P, et al. Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotizing pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients. Lancet 2002; 359:753-9.
7. Lina G, Piemont Y, Godail-Gamot F, et al. Involvement of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus in primary skin infections and pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 1999; 29:1128-32.
8. Ma XX, Ito T, Tiensasitorn C, et al. Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec identified in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2002; 46:1147-52.
9. Fergie JE, Purcell K. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in South Texas children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2001; 20:860-3.
10. Fey PD, Said-Salim B, Rupp ME, et al. Comparative molecular analysis of community- or hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2003; 47:196-203.
11. Fridkin SK, Hageman JC, Morrison M, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities. N Engl J Med 2005; 352:1436-44.
12. Gosbell IB, Mercer JL, Neville SA, et al. Non-multiresistant and multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community-acquired infections. Med J Aust 2001; 174:627-30.
13. Comment in: Med J Aust 2001; 174:617-8,
14. Med J Aust 2002; 176:243-4.
15. Tenover FC, Arbeit RD, Goering RV, et al. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33:2233-9.
16. Frank AL, Marcinak JF, Mangat PD, et al. Clindamycin treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2002; 21:530-4.
17. Munckhof WJ, Harper J, Schooneveldt J, et al. Recent appearance of clindamycin resistance in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in south-east Queensland. Med J Austr 2002; 176:243-4.