Min-Hua Tseng1, Wei-Jen Lin, Ching-Shen Teng, Chih-Chien Wang. 1. Department of Paediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defence Medical Centre, No. 325 Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, 114, Neihu, Taipei, Taiwan.
Abstract
UNLABELLED: Primary sternal osteomyelitis is a rare infectious disease in paediatric patients. It has not been previously reported as caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We describe a 9-year-old boy with a painful erythematous mid-sternal mass diagnosed as primary sternal osteomyelitis. The aetiological agent was community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, carrying a type IV staphylococcal cassette chromosome for mec. CONCLUSION: Methicillin resistance should be taken into considered in patient with community-associated staphylococcal infections.
UNLABELLED: Primary sternal osteomyelitis is a rare infectious disease in paediatric patients. It has not been previously reported as caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We describe a 9-year-old boy with a painful erythematous mid-sternal mass diagnosed as primary sternal osteomyelitis. The aetiological agent was community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, carrying a type IV staphylococcal cassette chromosome for mec. CONCLUSION: Methicillin resistance should be taken into considered in patient with community-associated staphylococcal infections.
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