Fatal case due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants in an AIDS patient

H Seifert; C von Eiff; G Fätkenheuer

doi:10.3201/eid0503.990319

Fatal case due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants in an AIDS patient

Emerg Infect Dis. 1999 May-Jun;5(3):450-3. doi: 10.3201/eid0503.990319.

Authors

H Seifert¹, C von Eiff, G Fätkenheuer

Affiliation

¹ University of Cologne, Germany. harald.seifert@uni-koeln.de

Abstract

We describe the first known case of a fatal infection with small colony variants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a patient with AIDS. Recovered from three blood cultures as well as from a deep hip abscess, these variants may have resulted from long-term antimicrobial therapy with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for prophylaxis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy*
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / microbiology
Abscess / drug therapy
Abscess / microbiology
Adult
Bacteremia / drug therapy
Bacteremia / microbiology
Fatal Outcome
Hip
Humans
Male
Methicillin Resistance*
Osteomyelitis / drug therapy
Osteomyelitis / microbiology
Polymorphism, Genetic
Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy*
Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
Staphylococcus aureus / genetics*
Staphylococcus aureus / growth & development