Emergence and Dissemination of a Community-Associated Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone - Panton-Valentine Leucocidin positive sharing the ST5 lineage with the most prevalent nosocomial clone in the same region of Argentina

SOLA, CLAUDIA; SAKA HECTOR A.; MRSA CORDOBA STUDY GROUP; VINDEL ANA; BOCCO JOSE LUIS

American Society for Microbiology

Lugar: Washington DC; Año: 2008 vol. 46 p. 1826 - 1826

pidemiological surveillance for Community-associated Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus-(CA-MRSA) revealed 33% and 13% of prevalence in paediatric and adults patients respectively in Cordoba-Argentina-2005. This study describe for the first time the emergence and dissemination of ST5 lineage as the most prevalent (89%) clone (pulsotypeI-ST5-SCCmecIVa-t311) harbouring Panton-Valentine leukocidin and enterotoxin A genes.