Results of nasal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus during a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak.

Recent reports have implicated community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a cause of outbreaks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This study was conducted to determine whether community-associated MRSA caused such an outbreak in our NICU and the extent of nasal colonization with MRSA among exposed babies and health care workers. MRSA recovered from infected and colonized babies were genotyped by pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).

Successful treatment of Corynebacterium striatum endocarditis with daptomycin plus rifampin.

Objective: To report a case of Corynebacterium striatum endocarditis that was treated successfully with daptomycin plus rifampin following an unsuccessful attempt at vancomycin desensitization and failure of linezolid therapy.

Case Summary: A 46-year-old woman with hemodialysis-dependent chronic renal failure was admitted for a graft-related infection. She presented with C.