Affiliation:
1. Departments of Pathology
2. Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We report the identification and characterization of three
Staphylococcus aureus
isolates recovered from throat and vaginal cultures, as well as from an axillary abscess, of a 17-year-old female who died of tampon-related toxic shock syndrome. The three
S. aureus
isolates were unrelated as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The vaginal isolate was
mecA
, Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and staphylococcal enterotoxin B and C negative, toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 positive, and staphylococcal cassette chromosome
mec
element (SCC
mec
) untypeable, which was consistent with the clinical and autopsy findings that death was due to tampon-related toxic shock syndrome.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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