Panton-Valentine leucocidin gene carriage among Staphylococcus aureus strains recovered from skin and soft tissue infections in Turkey

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 837-840

  Demir, Tulin ^a   Coplu, Nilay ^b   Bayrak, Hasan ^c   Turan, Meral ^a   Buyukguclu, Tuncay ^d   Aksu, Neriman ^e   Eksioglu, Meral ^f   Yalcin, Basak ^e   Atakan, Nilgün ^g   Kilic, Selcuk ^b   Karahan, Zeynep Ceren ^h   Esen, Berrin ^b  

^a AHI EVRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Refik Saydam Hygiene Center   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^e Numune Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^f Ankara Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^g HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; CA MRSA; MecA; PVL; Skin infections

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; LEUKOCIDINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TURKEY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84858665855     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr568     Document Type: Article

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