Scarlet fever caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Indian Pediatr

Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, No. 325 Cheng-Kung Road, Nei-hu, Taipei, Taiwan.

Published: July 2011

We describe a previously healthy 2.5-year-old boy with staphylococcal scarlet fever associated with acute suppurative otitis media due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The patient was successfully treated by spontaneous drainage in combination with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole therapy.

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