Affiliations 

  • 1 Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Medical Department, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. bkho67@gmail.com
  • 2 Institute for Medical Research, Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Medical Department, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Med J Malaysia, 2017 12;72(6):378-379.
PMID: 29308781

Abstract

A 61-year-old male presented with community-onset pneumonia not responding to treatment despite given appropriate antibiotics. Computed tomography scan of the thorax showed large multiloculated pleural effusion with multiple cavitating foci within collapsed segments; lesions which were suggestive of necrotising pneumonia. Drainage of the effusion and culture revealed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which had the same antibiotic profile with the blood isolate and PVL gene positive.

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