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Clinical and molecular characteristics of staphylococcal skin abscesses in children.

Faden H, Rose R, Lesse A, Hollands C, Dryja D, Glick PL

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA. hfaden@upa.chob.edu

Forty-nine children with skin abscesses (36 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and 13 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus) exhibited similar disease severity. Both pathogen groups were pulse field type USA300, multilocus sequence type 8, and possessed Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes. Related microbial genetic architecture may account for similarities in disease severity despite differences in antibiotic susceptibility.

Published 23 November 2007 in J Pediatr, 151(6): 700-3.
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