2012•Saudi Medical JournalOpen access

Panton-Valentine leukocidin Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis of the femur in a Saudi child.

Elham E. Bukhari, Fawzia Alotaibi, M. El-Hazmi, Ali M. Somily

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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.

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Key concepts: Panton–Valentine leukocidin, Staphylococcus aureus, Leukocidin, Medicine, Osteomyelitis, Microbiology, Staphylococcal Skin Infections, Micrococcaceae