Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- mechanisms of-disease
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 359 (9308) , 753-759
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(02)07877-7
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