Emerging infectious diseases
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Emerging Infect. Dis. · Mar 2006
Case ReportsPneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone.
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.