Open AccessOutbreak of Skin Infections in College Football Team Members Due to an Unusual Strain of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
Author(s) -
Jose Mario Fontanilla,
Kathryn B. Kirkland,
Elizabeth A. Talbot,
Kenton E Powell,
Joseph D. Schwartzman,
Richard V. Goering,
Jeffrey Parsonnet
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.02297-09
Subject(s) - outbreak , panton–valentine leukocidin , staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , leukocidin , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , virulence , strain (injury) , biology , staphylococcal skin infections , staphylococcal infections , medicine , virology , bacteria , gene , genetics
We report a skin and soft-tissue infection outbreak among football team members due to a USA300 methicillin-susceptibleStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain with genes coding for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and the arginine catabolic mobile element. We postulate that the strain is a community-associated USA300 MRSA strain that lost methicillin resistance but retained important virulence factors.