H. Seifert et al., Fatal case due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus small colonyvariants in an AIDS patient, EM INFECT D, 5(3), 1999, pp. 450-453
We describe the first known case of a fatal infection with small colony var
iants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a patient with AIDS
. Recovered from three blood cultures as well as from a deep hip abscess, t
hese variants may have resulted from long-term antimicrobial therapy with t
rimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for prophylaxis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumo
nia.