Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone.

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Fabien Garnier, Anne Tristan, Bruno François, Jerome Etienne, Manuella Delage-Corre, Christian Martin, Nadia Liassine, Wim Wannet, François Denis, Marie-Cécile Ploy

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Fabien Garnier: Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Limoges, France. fabien.garnier@unilim.fr

PMID: 16704793 DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.051040

Necrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentin leukocidin gene is a newly described disease entity. We report a new fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia. An S. aureus strain with an agr1 allele and of a new sequence type 377 was recovered, representing a new, emerging, community-acquired methicillin-resistant clone.

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Bacterial Toxins

Exotoxins

Fatal Outcome

Female

Humans

Leukocidins

Methicillin Resistance

Middle Aged

Pneumonia, Staphylococcal

Staphylococcus aureus

Bacterial Toxins

Exotoxins

Leukocidins

Panton-Valentine leukocidin

Case Reports Journal Article

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