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SUBMITTER: Takano T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2258532 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takano Tomomi T Higuchi Wataru W Zaraket Hassan H Otsuka Taketo T Baranovich Tatiana T Enany Shymaa S Saito Kohei K Isobe Hirokazu H Dohmae Soshi S Ozaki Kyoko K Takano Misao M Iwao Yasuhisa Y Shibuya Michiko M Okubo Takeshi T Yabe Shizuka S Shi Da D Reva Ivan I Teng Lee-Jene LJ Yamamoto Tatsuo T
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20071217 3
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strains, which often produce Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL), are increasingly noted worldwide. In this study, we examined 42 MRSA strains (25 PVL-positive [PVL+] strains and 17 PVL-negative [PVL(-)] strains) isolated in Taiwan for their molecular characteristics. The PVL+ MRSA strains included CA-MRSA strains with multilocus sequence type (ST) 59 (major PVL+ MRSA in Taiwan), its variants, and worldwide CA-MRSA ST30 strai ...[more]