Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus producing Panton-Valentine leukocidin as a cause of acute osteomyelitis in children

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 651-654

  Sdougkos, G ^a   Chini, V ^b   Papanastasiou, D A ^b   Christodoulou, G ^a   Tagaris, G ^a   Dimitracopoulos, G ^b   Spiliopoulou, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute osteomyelitis; Children; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Panton Valentine leukocidin; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; NETILMICIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MONOTHERAPY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34248365666     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01713.x     Document Type: Article

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