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Though pericardial disease is common in patients with renal disease, purulent pericarditis is very rare. We report a fatal case of purulent pericarditis and sepsis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a 78-year-old male with systemic hypertension and renal disease along with the molecular characterization of its resistant mechanism.
V. Anil Kumar, Nair, N., Thachathodiyl, R., Nandakumar, A., Dinesh, K. R., Thatcher, E., Karim, S., and Dr. Raja Biswas, “Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus causing fatal purulent pericarditis”, Journal of laboratory physicians, vol. 5, p. 136, 2013.