Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Carrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes: Worldwide Emergence

Vandenesch, François; S. Naimi, Timothy; C. Enright, Mark; Lina, Gérard; R. Nimmo, Graeme; Heffernan, Helen; Liassine, Nadia; Bes, Michèle; Greenland, Timothy; Reverdy, M.E.; Étienne, Jérôme

doi:10.3201/eid0908.030089

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Community-Acquired Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusCarrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes: Worldwide Emergence

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Aug 1, 2003

Authors:

François Vandenesch

Timothy S. Naimi

Mark C. Enright

Abstract

Infections caused by community-acquired (CA)-methicillin--resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been reported worldwide. We assessed whether any common genetic markers existed among 117 CA-MRSA isolates from the United States, France, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Samoa by p...

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Panton–Valentine leukocidin

Multilocus sequence typing

Leukocidin

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