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Case Reports
. 2006 Mar;12(3):498-500.
doi: 10.3201/eid1203.051040.

Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone

Fabien Garnier  1 , Anne Tristan, Bruno François, Jerome Etienne, Manuella Delage-Corre, Christian Martin, Nadia Liassine, Wim Wannet, François Denis, Marie-Cécile Ploy
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Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone

Fabien Garnier et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar.

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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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern and phylogenetic tree of 4 strains ST377. SmaI macrorestriction patterns were digitized and analyzed by using GelCompar II (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium) to calculate Dice coefficients of correlation and to generate a dendrogram by the unweighted pair group method using arithmetic averages clustering. The scale indicates the level of pattern similarity. PVL, Panton-Valentine leukocidin; ST, sequence type.
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