Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2019)

Severe Disseminated Infection with Emerging Lineage of Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

  • Paul Jewell,
  • Luke Dixon,
  • Aran Singanayagam,
  • Rohma Ghani,
  • Ernie Wong,
  • Meg Coleman,
  • Bruno Pichon,
  • Angela Kearns,
  • Georgina Russell,
  • James Hatcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2501.180684
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 1
pp. 187 – 189

Abstract

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We report a case of severe disseminated infection in an immunocompetent man caused by an emerging lineage of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398. Genes encoding classic virulence factors were absent. The patient made a slow recovery after multiple surgical interventions and a protracted course of intravenous flucloxacillin.

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