Staphylococcal Panton-Valentine leucocidin as a major virulence factor associated to furuncles.

Panton-Valentine Leucocidin (PVL), one of the β-barrel pore-forming staphylococcal leucotoxins, is known to be associated to furuncles and some severe community pneumonia. However, it is still uncertain how many other virulence factors are also associated to furuncles and what the risk factors of fu...

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Main Authors: Lamine Baba-Moussa, Haziz Sina, Jean-Michel Scheftel, Brigitte Moreau, Dominique Sainte-Marie, Simeon O Kotchoni, Gilles Prévost, Pierre Couppié
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3192123?pdf=render