Spread of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus skin and soft-tissue infection within a family: implications forantibiotic therapy and prevention Amir, N. H. and Rossney, A. S. and Veale, J. and O'Connor, M. and Fitzpatrick, F. and Humphreys, H.,, 59, 489-492 (2010), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.015925-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-2615, abstract= Outbreaks or clusters of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus (CA-MRSA) within families have been reported. We describea family cluster of CA-MRSA skin and soft-tissue infection where CA-MRSA wassuspected because of recurrent infections which failed to respond to flucloxacillin.While the prevalence of CA-MRSA is low worldwide, CA-MRSA should be consideredin certain circumstances depending on clinical presentation and risk assessment.Surveillance cultures of family contacts of patients with MRSA should be consideredto help establish the prevalence of CA-MRSA and to inform the optimal choiceof empiric antibiotic treatment., language=, type=