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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of Fournier's gangrene.

Burton MJ, Shah P, Swiatlo E

Medical Service, Section of Infectious Diseases, VA Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA. mary.burton2@va.gov

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has become an important pathogen in aggressive skin and soft-tissue infections in patients without risk factors for nosocomial infections. We describe a case of a previously healthy adult who developed fulminant sepsis from Fournier's gangrene caused by a strain of CA-MRSA containing the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes.

Published 16 April 2008 in Am J Med Sci, 335(4): 327-8.
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