Invasive Infection Caused by a Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain Not Carrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin in South Korea

Author:

Lee Seung Soon1,Kim Yu Jin1,Chung Doo Ryeon2,Jung Ki-Suck3,Kim Jae-Seok4

Affiliation:

1. Divisions of Infectious Diseases

2. Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul

3. Pulmonology, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang-si

4. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Abstract

ABSTRACT Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-negative, SCC mec type IVa strains are the most common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) circulating in the community in South Korea. This report describes five elderly patients presenting in 2006 to 2007 with invasive community-associated MRSA infection caused by a PVL-negative, SCC mec type IVa strain with sequence type 72 and spa type t324.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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