Volume 19, Number 1—January 2013
Dispatch
Staphylococcus aureus Causing Tropical Pyomyositis, Amazon Basin, Peru
Coralith García
, Marie Hallin, Ariane Deplano, Olivier Denis, Moises Sihuincha, Rozanne de Groot, Eduardo Gotuzzo, and Jan Jacobs
, Marie Hallin, Ariane Deplano, Olivier Denis, Moises Sihuincha, Rozanne de Groot, Eduardo Gotuzzo, and Jan JacobsTable
Characteristics of patients with tropical pyomyositis caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, Amazon Basin, Peru*
| Patient age | Year patient hospitalized | Body site involved | S. aureus isolate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| spa type | Multilocus ST† | Gene |
Enterotoxin genes | |||||||
| mecA | eta | etb | lukS-lukF | tst | ||||||
| 12 mo | 2005 | Lower limb | t6465 | ST121 | − | − | − | + | − | sei, seg |
| 3 y | 2005 | Lower limb | t6465 | ST121 | − | − | − | + | − | sei, seg |
| 6 mo | 2009 | Upper limb | t701 | ST6 | − | − | − | + | − | sea |
| 12 y | 2009 | Thorax, lower limb | t078 | ST25 | − | − | − | + | − | seb, sed, sei, sej, seg, sem, sen, seo, ser |
| 24 mo | 2009 | Lower limb | t078 | ST25 | − | − | − | + | − | seb, sed, sei, sej, seg, sem, sen, seo, ser |
| 45 y | 2009 | Thorax | t1778 | ST1 | − | − | − | + | − | seh |
| 3 y | 2009 | Abdomen, upper limb | t701 | ST6 | − | − | − | + | − | sea |
| 28 d | 2010 | Lumbar | t164 | ST20 | − | − | − | - | − | seg, sei, sem, sen, seo |
| 3 y | 2010 | Lower limb | t078 | ST25 | − | − | − | + | − | seb, sed, sei, sej, seg, sem, sen, seo, ser |
| 26 y | 2010 | Abdomen | t078 | ST25 | − | − | − | + | − | seb, sed, sei, sej, seg, sem, sen, seo, ser |
| 4 y | 2010 | ND | t1778 | ST1 | − | − | − | + | − | seh |
| 18 mo | 2010 | Thorax | t078 | ST25 | − | − | − | + | − | seb, sed, sei, sej, seg, sem, sen, seo, ser |
*ST, sequence type; −, negative; +, positive; ND, no data.
†Boldface indicates isolates that were randomly selected by spa type for multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The other isolates were not analyzed by MLST. Results for those isolates were extrapolated from results for the analyzed isolates of the same spa type.
