RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Panton-Valentine leukocidin Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis of the femur in a Saudi child.
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 201
OP 204
VO 33
IS 2
A1 Bukhari, Elham E.
A1 Al-Otaibi, Fawzia E.
A1 El-Hazmi, Malak M.
A1 Somily, Ali M.
YR 2012
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/33/2/201.abstract
AB 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.