TY - JOUR
T1 - Outbreak of skin infections in college football team members due to an unusual strain of community-acquired methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
AU - Fontanilla, Jose Mario
AU - Kirkland, Kathryn B.
AU - Talbot, Elizabeth A.
AU - Powell, Kenton E.
AU - Schwartzman, Joseph D.
AU - Goering, Richard V.
AU - Parsonnet, Jeffrey
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - 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-associated USA300 MRSA strain that lost methicillin resistance but retained important virulence factors.
AB - 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-associated USA300 MRSA strain that lost methicillin resistance but retained important virulence factors.
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U2 - 10.1128/JCM.02297-09
DO - 10.1128/JCM.02297-09
M3 - Article
C2 - 20007392
AN - SCOPUS:75649117441
VL - 48
SP - 609
EP - 611
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
SN - 0095-1137
IS - 2
ER -