Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Causing Psoas Abscess and Empyema

摘要

An injection drug user presenting with respiratory complaints was diagnosed with an empyema secondary to a psoas abscess. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was cultured from both the empyema and psoas abscess. The isolate was found to carry the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes.