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Disseminated MRSA infection with purulent pericarditis
Pradeep Kumar Mada1, Beth Cady2, Anajana De Silva2
1Department of Infectious diseases, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA pmada@lsuhsc.edu.
BMJ Case Reports
|April 1, 2017
Abstract:
The risk of developing pericarditis secondary to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in the absence of preceding surgical procedure is extremely low. We present a case report of a 36-year-old woman who developed disseminated MRSA infection leading to purulent pericarditis.