Combination of staphylococcal chromosome cassette SCCmec type V and Panton–Valentine leukocidin genes in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that caused necrotizing pneumonia in Greece
- 31 October 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Elsevier in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Vol. 56 (2) , 213-216
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.06.005
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