Contribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Diep, Binh An ^a   Palazzolo Ballance, Amy M ^b   Tattevin, Pierre ^a   Basuino, Li ^a   Braughton, Kevin R ^b   Whitney, Adeline R ^b   Chen, Liang ^c   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^c   Otto, Michael ^b   DeLeo, Frank R ^b   Chambers, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; KIDNEY DISEASE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRANULOCYTE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXOTOXINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRANULOCYTES; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 52449088546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003198     Document Type: Article

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