[PVL positive Staph aureus as the cause of necrotizing pneumonia. Description of three severe cases in earlier healthy young persons]

Lakartidningen. 2007 Feb;104(7):509, 511-3.
[Article in Swedish]
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bacterial Toxins / metabolism
  • Child
  • Community-Acquired Infections / drug therapy
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / pathology
  • Exotoxins / metabolism*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Leukocidins / metabolism*
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology
  • Male
  • Necrosis
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / microbiology*
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / pathology
  • Sepsis / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / microbiology
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Exotoxins
  • Leukocidins
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin