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Evolution and virulence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive ST30 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the past 30 years in Japan.
Biomedical research (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Apr 2012
Isobe Hirokazu, Takano Tomomi, Nishiyama Akihito, Hung Wei-Chun, Kuniyuki Shuichi, Shibuya Yasuhiro, Reva Ivan, Yabe Shizuka, Iwao Yasuhisa, Higuchi Wataru, Khokhlova Olga E, Okubo Takeshi, Yamamoto Tatsuo
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) includes hospital-acquired MRSA (HAMRSA) and community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA). Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive multilocus sequence type 30 (ST30) MRSA is one of worldwide CA-MRSA, which has also persisted in Japan since the 1980s. However, unexpectedly, it was not the same ST30 clone throughout. Before 2000, it was HA-MRSA with spa43 and ψSa3sea...
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