Super-sticky familial infections caused by Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive ST22 community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Japan

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-198

  Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a   Takano, Tomomi ^a   Yabe, Shizuka ^a   Higuchi, Wataru ^a   Iwao, Yasuhisa ^a   Isobe, Hirokazu ^a   Ozaki, Kyoko ^a   Takano, Misao ^a   Reva, Ivan ^a   Nishiyama, Akihito ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscess; Biofilm formation; Community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA MRSA); Familial infection; Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METICILLIN; NORFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BODY SURFACE; CHEEK; CHILD; COA GENE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIFOCAL ABSCESS; NONHUMAN; NOSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ABSCESS; SUPER STICKY FAMILIAL INFECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84863336626     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-011-0316-0     Document Type: Article

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