Community-acquired necrotizing pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST30-SCCmecIVc-spat019-PVL positive in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina

• Main Authors: Silvina Fernández, Sofía Murzicato, Orlando Sandoval, Liliana Fernández-Canigia, Marta Mollerach
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier España 2015-03-01
• Series: Revista Argentina de Microbiología
• Subjects: Neumonía necrotizante; Staphylococcus aureus resistente a meticilina adquirido en la comunidad; ST30
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0325-75412015000100010&lng=en&tlng=en

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the first cause of skin and soft tissue infections, but can also produce severe diseases such as bacteremia, osteomyelitis and necrotizing pneumonia. Some S. aureus lineages have been described in cases of necrotizing pneumonia worldwide, usually in young, previously healthy patients. In this work, we describe a fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus clone ST30-SCCmecIVc-spat019-PVL positive in an immunocompetent adult patient.