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To the Editor: Two articles in the April 7 issue (Fridkin et al.¹ and Miller et al.²) deal with the subject of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Fridkin et al. found that 6 percent of cases of MRSA infection were invasive, but they reported no cases of the toxic shock syndrome. Although MRSA strains are toxigenic,³ MRSA-associated toxic shock syndrome appears rare^4,5 and has not been described with community-acquired strains. We report a case of the toxic shock syndrome associated with community-acquired MRSA in an 18-year-old woman who presented with malaise, diarrhea, vomiting, and subsequently collapse. She had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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