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Table 2 Summary of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus enterocolitis reported in Japan over the past 10 years

From: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus enterocolitis sequentially complicated with septic arthritis: a case report and review of the literature

Pt. No.

Age

Sex

Underlying disease

Diagnostic method

Site of infection

Duration* (days)

Enterotoxin/coagulase Type/TSST-1

Prog.

Ref

1

66

M

Appendectomy

Autopsy

All digestive tract

NA

NA/II/+

D

9

2

31

M

Acute pancreatitis

Stool culture with Biopsy

Colon

12

NA

D

10

3

47

F

UTI

Autopsy

Small Intestine

10

NA

D

7

4

73

M

Esophageal Ca, Gastric CA POS

Ileum interposition

none

19

NA

A

11

5

59

M

Gastric Ca

Stool culture

NA

NA

C/NA/+

A

12

6

23

M

Infected pilonidal sinus POS

NA

NA

15

-/-/+

A

13

7

71

M

Peritonitis with mediastinitis POS

NA

NA

18

NA

A

14

8

72

M

Panperitonitis POS

Stool culture

NA

3

A/II/+

A

15

9

26

F

Tongue Ca POS

Stool culture

NA

7

NA

D

16

10

75

F

Gallbladder Ca

NA

NA

NA

NA

D

8

11

64

M

Pancreatitis

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

17

12

73

F

Pancreatitis

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

17

13

44

M

Pancreatitis

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

D

17

14

77

M

Pneumonia

Stool culture

NA

42

NA

A

18

15

78

M

Ileus POS

Stool culture

NA

20

NA

A

19

16

78

F

Intestinal perforation POS

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

D

20

17

39

M

Acute mandibular periostitis

Stool culture

NA

8

NA

A

21

18

60

M

Lung Ca small intestine metastasis POS

NA

NA

7

NA

A

22

19

84

M

Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

23

20

71

M

AMI, CABG

Stool culture

NA

3

NA

A

24

21

73

M

Sigmoid colon Ca POS

Stool culture

NA

2

NA

A

 

22

63

M

Rectum Ca POS

Stool culture

NA

2

NA

A

 

23

78

M

UTI

Stool culture

NA

4

NA

A

 

24

91

F

Pneumonia, cholecystitis

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

 

25

59

M

Esophageal Ca POS

Fecal properties

NA

4

NA

A

 

26

70

F

Perforation of sigmoid colon Ca POS

Stool culture

NA

4

NA

A

 

27

64

M

Perforation of amebic colitis POS

NA

NA

4

NA

A

 

28

0

M

BA

Stool culture

NA

7

NA

A

 

29

18

M

Lymphoblastic lymphoma T-cell type

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

 

30

64

M

Renal abscess

NA

NA

NA

NA

A

 

31

88

F

Pneumonia

NA

NA

9

NA

A

 

32

64

M

Pancreatic Ca POS

Stool culture

NA

NA

NA

A

 

33

62

M

Ileus

Fluid drainage from ileus tube

NA

5

NA

A

 

34

66

M

Esophageal Ca POS

NA

NA

NA

NA

A

 

35

26

M

ALL

Stool culture

NA

14

NA

D

 

36

47

M

Ileus

NA

NA

9

NA

D

 
  1. A, alive; ALL, acute lymphocytic leukemia; AMI, acute myocardial infarction; BA, bronchial asthma; Ca, carcinoma; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; D, dead; Duration*, duration of preceding antibiotics therapy to diagnosis of MRSA enterocolitis; NA, not available; POS, postoperative status; Prog, prognosis; Pt. No, patient number; TSST-1, toxic shock syndrome toxin-1; UTI, urinary tract infection; All patients were described in Japanese and only patients 1 to 20 have been published in English and are cited as references.