Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone

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Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone

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International audience. Necrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentin leukocidin gene is a newly described disease entity. We report a new fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia. An S. aureus strain with an agr1 allele and of a new sequence type 377 was recovered, representing a new, emerging, community-acquired methicillin-resistant clone.

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