A case of acute pyogenic sacroiliitis and bacteremia caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Authors
- Kim, S.; Lee, K.L.; Baek, H.L.; Jang, S.J.; Moon, S.M.; Cho, Y.K.
- Issue Date
- Dec-2013
- Publisher
- Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy
- Keywords
- Community-acquired infections; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pyogenic sacroiliitis
- Citation
- Infection and Chemotherapy, v.45, no.4, pp.441 - 445
- Journal Title
- Infection and Chemotherapy
- Volume
- 45
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 441
- End Page
- 445
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/14878
- DOI
- 10.3947/ic.2013.45.4.441
- ISSN
- 2093-2340
- Abstract
- Pyogenic sacroiliitis is a rare osteoarticular infection, occurring most frequently in children and young adults. Diagnosis of the disease is challenging because of a general lack of awareness of the disease and its nonspecific signs and symptoms. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative bacteria in pyogenic sacroiliitis. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has typically been considered a hospital-associated pathogen; however, community-acquired (CA)-MRSA infections are becoming increasingly common in Korea. We report the first domestic case of acute pyogenic sacroiliitis with abscess and bacteremia caused by CA-MRSA. The pathogen carried the type IV-A staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) without the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene, and was identified as sequence type (ST) 72 by multilocus sequence typing. © 2013 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases | Korean Society for Chemotherapy.
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