| Literature DB >> 20007392 |
Jose-Mario Fontanilla1, Kathryn B Kirkland, Elizabeth A Talbot, Kenton E Powell, Joseph D Schwartzman, Richard V Goering, Jeffrey Parsonnet.
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We report a skin and soft-tissue infection outbreak among football team members due to a USA300 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain with genes coding for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and the arginine catabolic mobile element. We postulate that the strain is a community-associated USA300 MRSA strain that lost methicillin resistance but retained important virulence factors.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 20007392 PMCID: PMC2815631 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02297-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948