Epidemiological, clinical, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility differences between PVL positive and PVL negative Staphylococcus aureus infections in Western Australia: a case control study

BACKGROUND: Panton Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) has been associated with invasive Staphylococcus aureus soft tissue and pneumonic infections. METHODS: From September 2007 to January 2009 at Royal Perth Hospital we tested for the PVL gene in S. aureus isolates from an invasive site, a suspected PVL-rel...

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Autores principales: Boan, Peter, Tan, Hui-Leen, Pearson, Julie, Coombs, Geoffrey, Heath, Christopher H, Robinson, James Owen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25572896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0742-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25572896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0742-6

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