Volume 9, Number 8—August 2003

Research

Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes: Worldwide Emergence

François Vandenesch*, Timothy Naimi†, Mark C. Enright‡, Gerard Lina*, Graeme R. Nimmo§, Helen Heffernan¶, Nadia Liassine#, Michèle Bes*, Timothy Greenland**, Marie-Elisabeth Reverdy*, and Jerome Etienne* 

Author affiliations: *INSERM E0230, Lyon, France; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom; §Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; ¶Antibiotic Reference Laboratory, 12 Wellington, New Zealand; #Laboratoire Bioanalytique-Riotton, Geneva, Switzerland; **UMR754, Lyon, France

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