Elderly infection in the community due to ST5/SCCmecII methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (the New York/Japan clone) in Japan: Panton-Valentine leukocidin-negative necrotizing pneumonia

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 335-339

  Khokhlova, Olga ^a   Tomita, Yusuke ^b   Hung, Wei Chun ^a   Takano, Tomomi ^a   Iwao, Yasuhisa ^a   Higuchi, Wataru ^a   Nishiyama, Akihito ^a   Reva, Ivan ^a   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a  

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

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired necrotizing pneumonia; Elderly infection; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); New York Japan clone

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DELTA HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PAZUFLOXACIN; RNA 16S; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN; TEICOPLANIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DELTA HEMOLYSIN PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGAR DILUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; GENOTYPE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84929502558     PISSN: 16841182     EISSN: 19959133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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