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. 2004 Feb;42(2):825-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.825-828.2004.

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Switzerland contains the Panton-Valentine leukocidin or exfoliative toxin genes

Nadia Liassine  1 , Raymond Auckenthaler, Marie-Christine Descombes, Michèle Bes, François Vandenesch, Jerome Etienne
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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Switzerland contains the Panton-Valentine leukocidin or exfoliative toxin genes

Nadia Liassine et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Feb.

Abstract

Among 10 strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) isolated in 2002 from patients with skin infections, seven harbored the Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene, two harbored the exfoliative toxin A gene, and one harbored neither of these genes. CA-MRSA isolates producing a variety of exotoxins are currently spreading in the Swiss community.

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FIG. 1.
Unweighted pair group method with averages dendrogram of PFGE results based on the Dice distance matrix and schematic representation of the pulsotypes (SmaI restriction enzyme) of PVL-positive and exfoliative toxin-positive CA-MRSA isolates. S. aureus NCTC 8325 is the reference strain for size markers (SM), expressed in kilobases. Strains differing by no more than three fragments were considered to be subtypes of a given clonal type. PVL-positive MRSA strains from Switzerland and France were of clonal type A (subtypes A1 to A8) or B. Exfoliatin A (eta)- or B (etb)-positive strains from Switzerland and Japan were of clonal type C (subtypes C1 to C3) or D.
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