TY - JOUR T1 - Panton-Valentine leukocidin Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis of the femur in a Saudi child. JF - Saudi Medical Journal JO - Saudi Med J SP - 201 LP - 204 VL - 33 IS - 2 AU - Elham E. Bukhari AU - Fawzia E. Al-Otaibi AU - Malak M. El-Hazmi AU - Ali M. Somily Y1 - 2012/02/01 UR - http://smj.org.sa/content/33/2/201.abstract N2 - ABSTRACT Staphylococcus aureus producing Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is well recognized to cause severe skin and soft tissue infections. Recently, it has been increasingly recognized as causing life-threatening musculoskeletal infection. We reported previously 3 children who had osteomyelitis caused by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We report and discuss a case of Methicillin sensitive staphylococcus aureus encoding the PVL genes isolated from a child with acute osteomyelitis from Saudi Arabia. ER -