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Sternoclavicular joint septic arthritis with small-colony variant Staphylococcus aureus
1Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-2581, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
Small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus may cause invasive disease in adults that is prolonged and refractory to standard therapies. We present a case of sternoclavicular arthritis with small-colony variant S. aureus that occurred in an 11-year-old child and discuss the importance of identification of these variants in the clinical microbiology laboratory.