A Rare Skin Rash: Linezolid-Induced Purpuric Drug Eruption without Vasculitis in a Puerto Rican Man.

BACKGROUND Cutaneous adverse drug reactions are the skin's response to a systemic exposure to drugs. Linezolid is an oral oxazolidine used to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Even though it has well-known adverse effects, purpuric cutaneous adverse drug reactions to linezolid have been scarcely described.