J Pediatr Infect Dis 2011; 06(01): 071-075
DOI: 10.3233/JPI-2011-0290
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

CA-MRSA brain abscess in a healthy infant

Andrew Stack
a   Department of Pediatrics, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
Stacey L. Peterson-Carmichael
b   Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric, Critical Care Medicine, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
Dwight E. Yin
c   Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
MariaLopez Marti
c   Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
Herbert Fuchs
d   Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
Ravi Jhaveri
c   Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
,
David A. Turner
b   Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric, Critical Care Medicine, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Publication History

22 August 2010

25 October 2010

Publication Date:
28 July 2015 (online)

Abstract

We report the first case of a previously healthy term 5 week old infant with no known risk factors who developed a frontal lobe abscess from community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). To date, only 16 cases of invasive CA-MRSA with central nervous system involvement have been previously described, but the incidence of CA-MRSA has surged within the last decade, creating a growing impact on public health. Increasing numbers of invasive infections caused by CA-MRSA in previously healthy individuals is of particular concern, and the highest rates of these infections are in children. As CA-MRSA continues to spread and develop further antibiotic resistance, cases of invasive diseases as described in this report may become more common.