Prevalence, clinical expression, invasiveness and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus containing Panton-Valentine leukocidin in children treated in a university hospital of Lithuania.

Birute Petraitiene,Pablo Rojo-Conejo,Lina Jankauskaite,Rimantas Kevalas,Giedre Trumpulyte,Ausra Snipaitiene,Astra Vitkauskienė,Vaidotas Gurskis

Prevalence, clinical expression, invasiveness and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus containing Panton-Valentine leukocidin in children treated in a university hospital of Lithuania.

2020

Birute Petraitiene
Pablo Rojo-Conejo
Lina Jankauskaite
Rimantas Kevalas
Giedre Trumpulyte
Ausra Snipaitiene
Astra Vitkauskienė
Vaidotas Gurskis

Background: There is a high prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus virulence factor Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) in North-East parts of Europe. The aim was to evaluate data regarding the PVL occu...

Keywords:

Panton–Valentine leukocidin
Microbiology
Leukocidin
Virulence factor
Medicine
Staphylococcus aureus
university hospital

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