Combination of staphylococcal chromosome cassette SCCmec type V and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that caused necrotizing pneumonia in Greece

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-216

  Gerogianni, Irini ^a   Mpatavanis, Georgios ^a   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos ^a   Maniatis, Antonios ^b   Spiliopoulou, Iris ^c   Petinaki, Efi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b University of Thessaly School of Medicine   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CA MRSA; Necrotizing pneumonia; PVL; SCCmec type V

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; GREECE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33749267820     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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