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Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients

Yves Gillet, B. Issartel, Philippe Vanhems, Jean‐Christophe Fournet, Gérard Lina, Michèle Bes, François Vandenesch, Y. Piémont, Nicole Brousse, D. Floret,

The Lancet · 2002 · 1.5K citations · 33 references

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Involvement of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin--Producing Staphylococcus aureus in Primary Skin Infections and Pneumonia

Gérard Lina, Y. Piémont, F. Godail-Gamot et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 1999 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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Nosocomial Infections in Combined Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Units in the United States

Michael J. Richards, Jonathan R. Edwards, David H. Culver et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2000 · 1K citations

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Identification of methicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci by polymerase chain reaction

Kazuhisa Murakami, W Minamide, Ken-ichiro Wada et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 1991 · 939 citations · Full text

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Four Pediatric Deaths From Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus--Minnesota and North Dakota, 1997-1999

JAMA · 1999 · 580 citations

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Panton-Valentine leucocidin and gamma-hemolysin from Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 49775 are encoded by distinct genetic loci and have different biological activities

Gilles Prévost, B. Cribier, Pierre Couppié et al. · Infection and Immunity · 1995 · 297 citations · Full text

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