Infect Chemother.
2007 Apr;39(2):100-103.
A Case of Acute Pyelonephritis Caused by Community Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea. karmacho@gilhospital.com
- 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.
- 3Catholic Research Institutes of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- In the past decade, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged in the community, causing serious infection in young and healthy persons without established risk factors for MRSA acquisition. This community acquired methicillin- resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) has been usually reported to cause the skin and soft tissue infection and necrotizing pneumonia. We have experienced a case of acute pyelonephritis caused by CA-MRSA without health care-associated risk factors. The staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) revealed the ST5- MRSA-IV clone, which showed SCCmec type IV and MLST allelic profile of ST5 (1-4-1-4-12-1-10).
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