Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2013)

Staphylococcus aureus Causing Tropical Pyomyositis, Amazon Basin, Peru

  • Coralith García,
  • Marie Hallin,
  • Ariane Deplano,
  • Olivier Denis,
  • Moises Sihuincha,
  • Rozanne de Groot,
  • Eduardo Gotuzzo,
  • Jan Jacobs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1901.120819
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 123 – 125

Abstract

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We studied 12 Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing tropical pyomyositis in the Amazon Basin of Peru. All isolates were methicillin-susceptible; 11 carried Panton-Valentine leukocidin–encoding genes, and 5 belonged to multilocus sequence type 25 and possessed an extensive set of enterotoxins. Our findings suggest sequence type 25 is circulating in tropical areas of South America.

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