Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2010

Keywords

Adult, Child, Preschool, Community-Acquired Infections, Female, Humans, Male, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Skin Diseases, Bacterial, Soft Tissue Infections, Staphylococcal Infections

Comments

This article is available from http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/59/4/489.long

Abstract

Outbreaks or clusters of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) within families have been reported. We describe a family cluster of CA-MRSA skin and soft-tissue infection where CA-MRSA was suspected because of recurrent infections which failed to respond to flucloxacillin. While the prevalence of CA-MRSA is low worldwide, CA-MRSA should be considered in certain circumstances depending on clinical presentation and risk assessment. Surveillance cultures of family contacts of patients with MRSA should be considered to help establish the prevalence of CA-MRSA and to inform the optimal choice of empiric antibiotic treatment.

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Citation

Amir NH, Rossney AS, Veale J, O'Connor M, Fitzpatrick F, Humphreys H. Spread of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infection within a family: implications for antibiotic therapy and prevention. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2010;59(4):489-492.

PubMed ID

20056775

DOI Link

10.1099/jmm.0.015925-0