Severe infective endocarditis with systemic embolism due to community associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST630

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are increasingly causing infective endocarditis over the past decade. Here we report a healthy man who developed a severe acute infective endocarditis with systemic embolism caused by CA-MRSA. The strain was recovered from re...

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Main Authors: Beiwen Zheng, Saiping Jiang, Zemin Xu, Yonghong Xiao, Lanjuan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867014001718