TY - JOUR AU - Rotun, Sharon S. AU - McMath, Virginia AU - Schoonmaker, Dianna J. AU - Maupin, Peggy S. AU - Tenover, Fred AU - Hill, Bertha C. AU - Ackman, David M. T1 - Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Susceptibility to Vancomycin Isolated from a Patient with Fatal Bacteremia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 1999 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 147 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A Staphylococcus aureus isolate with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin was obtained from a dialysis patient with a fatal case of bacteremia. Comparison of the isolate with two methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates obtained from the same patient 4 months earlier suggests that the S. aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin emerged from the MRSA strain with which the patient was infected. Atypical phenotypic characteristics, including weak or negative latex-agglutination test results, weak or negative-slide coagulase test results, heterogeneous morphologic features, slow rate of growth, and vancomycin susceptibility (by disk diffusion test) were observed. KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0501.990118 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/1/99-0118_article ER - End of Reference