New strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leukocidin causing an outbreak of severe soft tissue infection in a football team

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 848-850

  Muller Premru M ^a   Strommenger, B ^b   Alikadic, N ^c   Witte, W ^b   Friedrich, A W ^d   Seme, K ^a   Svent Kucina, N ^a   Smrke, D ^c   Spik, V ^a   Gubina, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCIDIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECZEMA; EPIDEMIC; FOOTBALL; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INJURY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SOCCER; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29944437788     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-005-0048-0     Document Type: Article

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