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

FERNÁNDEZ S; MURZICATO S; SANDOVAL O; FERNÁNDEZ CANIGGIA L; MOLLERACH M

REVISTA ARGENTINA DE MICROBIOLOGíA

ASOCIACION ARGENTINA MICROBIOLOGIA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2015 vol. 47 p. 50 - 53

0325-7541

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