Breast Milk Transmission of a Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Producing Staphylococcus aureus Strain Causing Infantile Pneumonia
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Breast milk transmission of a Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus strain causing infantile pneumonia.
We report on a 38-day-old infant who developed pleuropneumonia due to a Staphylococcus aureus strain responsible for familial furunculosis, which was acquired by maternal breast-feeding. All isolates from the infant and parents were genetically related by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis and produced Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.39.2.728-729.2001