Severe community-onset pneumonia in healthy adults caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on December 07, 2004

Authors

John S Francis1, Meg C Doherty, Uri Lopatin, Cecilia P Johnston, Gita Sinha, Tracy Ross, Mian Cai, Nadia N Hansel, Trish Perl, John R Ticehurst, Karen Carroll, David L Thomas, Eric Nuermberger, John G Bartlett

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1: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA. jfranc13@jhmi.edu

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