Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300

We report a fatal case of brain abscess caused by infection due to a community- associated methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain ( USA300) in a 37- year- old incarcerated woman with a history of furunculosis and injection drug use. Community- onset pyogenic brain abscess should be added to the growing list of life- threatening invasive infections caused by epidemic community- acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus.