Outbreak of Skin Infections in College Football Team Members Due to an Unusual Strain of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

We report a skin and soft-tissue infection outbreak among football team members due to a USA300 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain with genes coding for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and the arginine catabolic mobile element. We postulate that the strain is a community-associa...

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Main Authors: Fontanilla, Jose-Mario, Kirkland, Kathryn B., Talbot, Elizabeth A., Powell, Kenton E., Schwartzman, Joseph D., Goering, Richard V., Parsonnet, Jeffrey
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Epidemiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815631/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20007392
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02297-09
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