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Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300.

Sifri CD, Park J, Helm GA, Stemper ME, Shukla SK

Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1361, USA. csifri@virginia.edu

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.

Published 5 October 2007 in Clin Infect Dis, 45(9): e113-7.
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