Cases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010

Euro Surveill. 2011 Jan 27;16(4):19777.

Abstract

In an asylum seeker centre in Schleswig-Holstein, a resident was diagnosed with furuncle caused by a Panton-Valentine leukocidine (PVL)-positive community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). As a result of active case finding, 232 of 427 persons (54% of all residents) were screened for MRSA and two further PVL-positive CA-MRSA cases were identified

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Bacterial Toxins / isolation & purification
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology
  • Community-Acquired Infections / transmission
  • Contact Tracing
  • Exotoxins / isolation & purification
  • Female
  • Furunculosis / diagnosis*
  • Germany
  • Humans
  • Leukocidins / isolation & purification
  • Male
  • Methicillin Resistance
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Typing
  • Nose / microbiology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
  • Refugees
  • Somalia / ethnology
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / ethnology
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Exotoxins
  • Leukocidins
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin