PVL

Tuesday, 9 September 2008 15:00 - 16:30, Halls B, C and D

Staphylococcus aureus encoding both TSST-1 and PVL in the UK
  • Angela Kearns, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin: not as lethal as all that?
  • Sharon Peacock, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, University of Oxford and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Thailand
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-positive and -negative community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) USA400 sibling strains exhibit similar virulence characteristics in in vitro cell Cclture and animal models
  • Kunyan Zhang, Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Calgary Health Region/Calgary Laboratory Services/University of Calgary, Canada
High Panton-Valentine leukocidin prevalence among community-associated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus from Indonesia
  • Ruud Deurenberg, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
Characteristics of Panton - Valentine leukocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in the Czech Republic
  • Petr Petras, National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic
  • Roman Pantucek, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk university, Kotlarska 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
PVL-positivity among clinical and colonizing isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from children in south-west of Sweden
  • Peter Nilsson, Clinical microbiology and infection control, County hospital, S-30185 Halmstad, Sweden., Sweden
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Finland: clinical infections, strain types and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes
  • Saara Salmenlinna, National Public Health Institute, Finland
Prevalence of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) in Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing bacteraemia from a paediatric/obstetric hospital in South Australia 2004 - 2008
  • Jan Bell, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia
  • John Turnidge, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia