Community-acquired pneumonia and bacteraemia in a healthy young woman caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carrying the genes encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 902-904

  Torell, Erik ^a   Molin, Daniel ^a   Tano, Eva ^a   Ehrenborg, Christian ^a   Ryden, Cecilia ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUSIDIC ACID; LEUKOCIDIN; METICILLIN; OXYGEN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; GENETIC CODE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SKIN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREECE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWEDEN;

EID: 30544441150     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500348945     Document Type: Article

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