Scarlet Fever Caused by Community-associated Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus.

We describe a previously healthy 2½-year-old boy with staphylococcal scarlet fever associated with acute suppurative otitis media due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The patient was successfully treated by spontaneous drainage in combination with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole therapy.