Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2016)

Fatal Septicemia Linked to Transmission of MRSA Clonal Complex 398 in Hospital and Nursing Home, Denmark

  • Rikke Thoft Nielsen,
  • Michael Kemp,
  • Anette Holm,
  • Marianne Nielsine Skov,
  • Mette Detlefsen,
  • Henrik Hasman,
  • Frank Møller Aarestrup,
  • Rolf Sommer Kaas,
  • Jesper Boye Nielsen,
  • Henrik Westh,
  • Hans Jørn Kolmos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2205.151835
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 5
pp. 900 – 902

Abstract

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We describe 2 fatal cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex 398 septicemia in persons who had no contact with livestock. Whole-genome sequencing of the isolated MRSA strains strongly suggest that both were of animal origin and that the patients had been infected through 2 independent person-to-person transmission chains.

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