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Abstract

, an opportunistic pathogen of dogs and cats, is rarely reported to cause infection in humans. Here, we describe a case of severe skin infection caused by , in a 47-year-old male, a dog owner; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first such case reported from Scotland.

The patient presented with a short history of a severe ecthyma-like lesion on his forehead, with smaller lesions on his abdomen and legs. Bacterial culture revealed , thought to be colonizing the wound, and a species, identified as by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight MS and confirmed by molecular methods using a PCR-RFLP approach. The patient was treated with flucloxacillin, penicillin V and Fucibet cream, and recovered fully. Zoonotic infection was considered likely; however, screening swabs from his dogs grew of a different clonal type. Both patient and dog strains carried exfoliative toxin and leucocidin I, closely related to Panton–Valentine leucocidin, possibly contributing to the severity of the infection. , although coagulase positive, is normally negative by rapid slide clumping and latex agglutination tests routinely used to identify . Hence, may easily be misidentified as a coagulase-negative staphylococcus and considered insignificant.

This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case of a human infection in Scotland. Zoonotic transmission of between pets and owners has been shown. However, in this case zoonosis could not be confirmed.

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