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Prevalence and sequence variation of panton-valentine leukocidin in methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus aureus strains in the United States.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2012
Brown Megan L, O'Hara F Patrick, Close Nicole M, Mera Robertino M, Miller Linda A, Suaya Jose A, Amrine-Madsen Heather
Abstract excerpt
Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), encoded by the lukSF-PV genes, is a putative virulence factor and marker for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Here we report the prevalence of PVL among a representative sample of 1,055 S. aureus infection isolates from the United States and describe the sequence variation of the lukSF-PV genes. We performed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on...
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