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Lung Abscess
Findings in lung abscess reported from A. Ditzen and co-researchers
December 16th, 2008
According to a study from Dresden, Germany, "Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen in injecting drug users. We illustrate this with a case of a young female patient who was admitted with multiple cutaneous and pulmonary abscesses." "The causative strain was characterised using diagnostic microarrays. Genes encoding Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) were detected, mecA was absent. The overall hybridisation profile allowed us to assign this isolate to ST152, being related to an epidemic community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (caMRSA) strain from south-eastern Europe. While PVL-positive MRSA has frequently been observed in injecting drug users,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-16)
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