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Treatment failure due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin
P B Ward1, P D Johnson, E A Grabsch
1Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, VIC. Peter.Ward@armc.org.au
The Medical Journal of Australia
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
We report the first instance in Australia of treatment failure due to a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin--heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (hVISA). The infection occurred in a 41-year-old man with multiple risk factors. No transmission of the organism to other patients or the environment was detected. This case may herald the beginning of a new phase of staphylococcal resistance in Australia.