Giuseppe
Emeritus
J Infect. 2009 Sep 8. [Epub ahead of print]
Fatal coinfection with swine origin influenza virus A/H1N1 and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Cheng VC, Lau YK, Lee KL, Yiu KH, Chan KH, Ho PL, Yuen KY. - Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, China.
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) co-infection has been described previously in association with respiratory tract infection with seasonal influenza A viruses, but not with swine origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV). We report the clinical and pathological findings of the first death with fulminant co-infection by CA-MRSA. Since early empirical treatment with beta-lactam plus flurorquinolone or macrolides is often initiated before specimen collections, bacterial co-infection in S-OIV may have been under-reported.
PMID: 19747506 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Fatal coinfection with swine origin influenza virus A/H1N1 and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Cheng VC, Lau YK, Lee KL, Yiu KH, Chan KH, Ho PL, Yuen KY. - Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, China.
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) co-infection has been described previously in association with respiratory tract infection with seasonal influenza A viruses, but not with swine origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV). We report the clinical and pathological findings of the first death with fulminant co-infection by CA-MRSA. Since early empirical treatment with beta-lactam plus flurorquinolone or macrolides is often initiated before specimen collections, bacterial co-infection in S-OIV may have been under-reported.
PMID: 19747506 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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