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Case Reports
. 2014 Aug;52(8):3118-20.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00703-14. Epub 2014 May 28.

Cluster of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in humans in a tertiary hospital

Gustaf Starlander  1 , Stefan Börjesson  2 , Ulrika Grönlund-Andersson  2 , Christian Tellgren-Roth  3 , Asa Melhus  4
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Cluster of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in humans in a tertiary hospital

Gustaf Starlander et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Aug.

Abstract

The dog-associated Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is a rare pathogen in humans. Here we describe a cluster of infections caused by the methicillin-resistant S. pseudintermedius clone ST71-J-t02-II-III. It involved four elderly patients at a tertiary hospital. Three patients had wound infections, and the strain had a tendency to cause bullous skin lesions.

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