Fatal Septicemia Linked to Transmission of MRSA Clonal Complex 398 in Hospital and Nursing Home, Denmark.

ABSTRACT: We describe 2 fatal cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex 398 septicemia in persons who had no contact with livestock. Whole-genome sequencing of the isolated MRSA strains strongly suggest that both were of animal origin and that the patients had been infected through 2 independent person-to-person transmission chains.

SUBMITTER: Nielsen RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4861525 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature