• Emerging Infect. Dis. · Mar 2006

    Case Reports

    Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone.

    • Fabien Garnier, Anne Tristan, Bruno François, Jerome Etienne, Manuella Delage-Corre, Christian Martin, Nadia Liassine, Wim Wannet, François Denis, and Marie-Cécile Ploy.
    • Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Limoges, France. fabien.garnier@unilim.fr
    • Emerging Infect. Dis. 2006 Mar 1; 12 (3): 498-500.

    AbstractNecrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentin leukocidin gene is a newly described disease entity. We report a new fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia. An S. aureus strain with an agr1 allele and of a new sequence type 377 was recovered, representing a new, emerging, community-acquired methicillin-resistant clone.

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