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Pneumonia and New Methicillin-resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Clone

Fabien Garnier, Anne Tristan, Bruno François, Jérôme Étienne, Manuella Delage-Corre, Christian Martin, Nadia Liassine, Wim Wannet, François Denis, Marie-Cécile Ploy

Emerging infectious diseases · 2006 · 60 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

Necrotizing 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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