Title
Staphylococcus aureus causing tropical pyomyositis, Amazon Basin, Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Hallin M.
Deplano A.
Denis O.
de Groot R.
Jacobs J.
Abstract
We studied 12 Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing tropical pyomyositis in the Amazon Basin of Peru. All isolates were methicillin-susceptible; 11 carried Panton-Valentine leukocidin-encoding genes, and 5 belonged to multilocus sequence type 25 and possessed an extensive set of enterotoxins. Our findings suggest sequence type 25 is circulating in tropical areas of South America.
Start page
123
End page
125
Volume
19
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Demografía
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84871630750
PubMed ID
Source
Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN of the container
10806040
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus