| Title | Intermediate vancomycin susceptibility in a community-associated MRSA clone. | | Author(s) | Graber CJ, Wong MK, Carleton HA, Perdreau-Remington F, Haller BL, Chambers HF | | Institution | Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, 94110, USA. christopher.graber@ucsf.edu | | Source | Emerg Infect Dis 2007 Mar; 13(3):491-3. | | Abstract | We describe a case of treatment failure caused by a strain of USA300 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin and reduced susceptibility to daptomycin. The strain was isolated from the bone of a 56-year-old man with lumbar osteomyelitis after a 6-week treatment course of vancomycin for catheter-associated septic thrombophlebitis. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 17552110 |
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