Abstract
Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) production by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was determined in vitro using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and associations with clinical presentation and bacterial genetic characteristics were examined. PVL production ranged from 0.02 to 4.865 μg/ml and correlated with a multilocus sequence type (MLST) clonal complex associated with specific PVL phage types. A relationship between PVL production and clinical presentation or patient demographics could not be demonstrated.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1773-1776 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2012 |