Panton-valentine leukocidin is not a virulence determinant in murine models of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1166-1170

  Wardenburg, Juliane Bubeck ^a   Palazzolo Ballance, Amy M ^b   Otto, Michael ^b   Schneewind, Olaf ^a   DeLeo, Frank R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 54749153168     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592053     Document Type: Article

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