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Community‐Onset Methicillin‐Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Associated with Antibiotic Use and the Cytotoxin Panton‐Valentine Leukocidin during a Furunculosis Outbreak in Rural Alaska

Henry C. Baggett, Thomas W. Hennessy, Karen Rudolph, Dana Bruden, Alisa Reasonover, Alan J. Parkinson, Rachel Sparks, Rodney M. Donlan, Patricia Martinez, Kanokporn Mongkolrattanothai,

The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2004 · 251 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

Selective antibiotic pressure for drug-resistant strains carrying PVL may have led to the emergence and spread of CO-MRSA in rural Alaska.

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