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Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Is a Very Potent Cytotoxic Factor for Human Neutrophils

The role of the pore-forming Staphylococcus aureus toxin Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) in severe necrotizing diseases is debated due to conflicting data from epidemiological studies of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) infections and various murine disease-models. In...

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Autores principales: Löffler, Bettina, Hussain, Muzaffar, Grundmeier, Matthias, Brück, Michaela, Holzinger, Dirk, Varga, Georg, Roth, Johannes, Kahl, Barbara C., Proctor, Richard A., Peters, Georg
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2798753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20072612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000715