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Recurrent community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in an HIV-infected person.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2011
Vyas Kartavya, Hospenthal Duane R, Mende Katrin, Crum-Cianflone Nancy F
Abstract excerpt
HIV-infected persons are at heightened risk for recurrent community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections, but there are limited data regarding the molecular characterization of these events. We describe an HIV-infected patient with 24 soft tissue infections and multiple colonization events. Molecular genotyping from 33 nonduplicate isolates showed all strains were USA300,...
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