Clinical and molecular characteristics of staphylococcal skin abscesses in children.
case_control · Level III
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Abscess
- Genes, Bacterial
- Methicillin Resistance
- Staphylococcal Skin Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus