Zeitschrift für Infektionskrankheiten und Therapie

Abstrakt

Bacteremia Associated with Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and Clindamycin Resistant in an Elderly Man with Carbuncle: A Case Report from Rio De Janeiro during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gustavo Adolfo Brasileiro Passos, Alexandra Vidal Pedinotti Zuma, Nathalya Barbosa Navarro, Rosangela Vianna Silva, Domenica Baroni Coelho Oliveira Ferreira, Giovanna Ianini Ferraiouli Barbosa, Dominique Cardoso Almeida Thielmann, Alexandre Carlos Gripp, Robson Souza Leao, Paulo Vieira Damasco

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) skin infections have few treatment options in modern medicine. Nevertheless, according to the guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America clindamycin is an option in managing this issue in outpatient clinics. The present report describes the case of a man with carbuncle during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, in which clindamycin-resistant S. aureus (mecA, Sccmec-IV) was identified in two blood samples.