CA-MRSA brain abscess in a healthy infant

Andrew Stack; Stacey L. Peterson-Carmichael; Dwight E. Yin; MariaLopez Marti; Herbert Fuchs; Ravi Jhaveri; David A. Turner

doi:10.3233/JPI-2011-0290

CA-MRSA brain abscess in a healthy infant

Andrew Stack^*, Stacey L. Peterson-Carmichael, Dwight E. Yin, MariaLopez Marti, Herbert Fuchs, Ravi Jhaveri, David A. Turner

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We report the first case of a previously healthy term 5 week old infant with no known risk factors who developed a frontal lobe abscess from community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). To date, only 16 cases of invasive CA-MRSA with central nervous system involvement have been previously described, but the incidence of CA-MRSA has surged within the last decade, creating a growing impact on public health. Increasing numbers of invasive infections caused by CA-MRSA in previously healthy individuals is of particular concern, and the highest rates of these infections are in children. As CA-MRSA continues to spread and develop further antibiotic resistance, cases of invasive diseases as described in this report may become more common.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	71-75
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/JPI-2011-0290
State	Published - Apr 25 2011

Keywords

abscess
community-acquired
infant
invasive
methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcal aureus

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Infectious Diseases

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