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

Abstract

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