TY - JOUR AU - Nakaminami, Hidemasa AU - Hirai, Yuji AU - Nishimura, Hirosuke AU - Takadama, Shunsuke AU - Noguchi, Norihisa T1 - Arthritis Caused by MRSA CC398 in a Patient without Animal Contact, Japan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 795 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Clonal complex 398 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a typical lineage of livestock-associated MRSA. We report a case of intractable arthritis of the shoulder joint caused by a multidrug-resistant Panton-Valentine leukocidin–positive livestock-associated MRSA clonal complex 398 sequence type 1232 clone in a patient in Japan who had no animal contact. KW - livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus KW - Panton-Valentine leukocidine KW - CC398 KW - ST1232 KW - MRSA KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - AMR KW - bacteria KW - Japan KW - Panton-Valentine leukocidin KW - One Health KW - arthritis DO - 10.3201/eid2604.190376 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-0376_article ER - End of Reference