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Polyclonal multiply antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leucocidin in England.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2010
Ellington Matthew J, Ganner Mark, Warner Marina, Cookson Barry D, Kearns Angela M
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OBJECTIVES: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) including those encoding Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) are often described as more susceptible to a range of antibiotics than their hospital-associated counterparts. Recent scattered reports of the emergence of multiresistant PVL-MRSA have highlighted the potential for resistance to emerge. Here we detail polyclonal multiply...
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