Community-acquired pneumonia and bacteraemia in a healthy young woman caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carrying the genes encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)

Scand J Infect Dis. 2005;37(11-12):902-4. doi: 10.1080/00365540500348945.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bacteremia / drug therapy
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Carrier State / microbiology
  • Community-Acquired Infections / drug therapy
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / transmission
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • DNA, Bacterial / isolation & purification
  • Exotoxins
  • Female
  • Genes, Bacterial
  • Greece
  • Humans
  • Leukocidins
  • Methicillin Resistance
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / transmission
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
  • Staphylococcus aureus / genetics*
  • Sweden

Substances

  • Bacterial Toxins
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Exotoxins
  • Leukocidins
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin