Pneumonia and New Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone

Abstract

Necrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentin leukocidin gene is a newly described disease entity. We report a new fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia. An S. aureus strain with an agr1 allele and of a new sequence type 377 was recovered, representing a new, emerging, community-acquired methicillin-resistant clone.

Keywords

• Staphylococcus aureus
• methicillin-resistant
• community-acquired necrotizing pneumonia
• Panton-Valentin leukocidin
• dispatch
• France