Staphylococcus aureus panton-valentine leukocidin is a very potent cytotoxic factor for human neutrophils

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Löffler, Bettina ^a   Hussain, Muzaffar ^a   Grundmeier, Matthias ^a   Brück, Michaela ^a   Holzinger, Dirk ^a   Varga, Georg ^a   Roth, Johannes ^a   Kahl, Barbara C ^a   Proctor, Richard A ^a   Peters, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONKEY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; MACACA; METABOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MURINAE; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHILS; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649223154     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000715     Document Type: Article

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