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SUBMITTER: Otto M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3106302 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Expert review of anti-infective therapy 20110401 4
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has recently caused epidemic outbreaks of community-associated (CA) skin infections. The infecting strains frequently contain the genes encoding the staphylococcal toxin, Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL). On that ground, the use of PVL-based vaccines has been proposed for the treatment of CA-MRSA infections, despite experimental and epidemiological evidence that does not support a major role of the PVL toxin in CA-MRSA skin disease. Hermos et a ...[more]