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Libert N, Borne M, Janvier F, Batjom E, Cirodde A, Nizou JY, Brinquin L. [Successful treatment of life-threatening Panton-Valentine leucocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia with antibiotics and immunoglobulins targeting the toxin production]. Rev Med Interne 2009; 30:907-10. [PMID: 19299049 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2008.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2008] [Revised: 11/12/2008] [Accepted: 11/30/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We report a patient who presented a severe Panton-Valentine-secreting methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia with threatening multi-organ failure including acute respiratory distress syndrome, cardiac failure, renal failure and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Clinical and biological disease course using empiric therapy with treatment directed against toxin production (linezolid, clindamycin and intravenous immunoglobulins) was found to be quickly effective.
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- N Libert
- Service d'anesthésie et réanimation, hôpital d'instruction-des-armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France.
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Reva I, Higuchi W, Takano T, Singur O, Ozaki K, Isobe H, Yabe S, Saito K, Baranovich T, Enany S, Otsuka T, Nishiyama A, Yamamoto T, Potapov V. A rapid screening method for Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus belonging to multilocus sequence type 30 and its related clone using a combination of multiplex PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Infect Chemother 2009; 15:75-83. [DOI: 10.1007/s10156-009-0667-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2007] [Accepted: 01/10/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Libert N, Batjom E, Cirodde A, de Rudnicki S, Grasser L, Borne M, Brinquin L. Traitements antitoxiniques et pneumopathies nécrosantes à Staphylococcus aureus sécréteurs de leucocidine de Panton-Valentine. Med Mal Infect 2009; 39:14-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2008.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Revised: 08/09/2008] [Accepted: 10/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Montgomery CP, Boyle-Vavra S, Adem PV, Lee JC, Husain AN, Clasen J, Daum RS. Comparison of virulence in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pulsotypes USA300 and USA400 in a rat model of pneumonia. J Infect Dis 2008; 198:561-70. [PMID: 18598194 DOI: 10.1086/590157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The predominant genetic background of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has transitioned from USA400 to USA300 in most US communities. The explanation for this shift is unclear. We hypothesized that USA300 must be more pathogenic--specifically, that USA300 would have increased virulence when compared with USA400 in an animal model. METHODS Rats were inoculated intratracheally with 1 of 6 S. aureus isolates from the USA300 and USA400 backgrounds. We assessed mortality, in vivo bacterial growth, and histopathology. We assessed the in vitro expression of capsule and of selected genes believed to be important in virulence in S. aureus, including agr, saeRS, sarA, alpha-toxin (hla), and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (pvl). RESULTS USA300 isolates were more lethal, produced more severe pneumonia, and had higher in vivo bacterial density in the lung than did USA400 isolates. In vitro expression of agr, saeRS, sarA, hla, and pvl were greater in USA300 isolates. USA300 isolates were unencapsulated, whereas 2 of 3 USA400 isolates produced capsule. CONCLUSIONS USA300 isolates were more virulent than USA400 isolates in a model of necrotizing pneumonia. The explanation for this is unclear, but it likely results from increased expression of S. aureus regulatory systems (e.g., agr, saeRS, and sarA) and the resultant upregulation of key virulence factors including alpha-toxin and PVL.
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- Christopher P Montgomery
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
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Gillet Y, Etienne J, Lina G, Vandenesch F. Association of Necrotizing Pneumonia with Panton‐Valentine Leukocidin–ProducingStaphylococcus aureus,Regardless of Methicillin Resistance. Clin Infect Dis 2008; 47:985-6. [DOI: 10.1086/591803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Comparison of adhesion and virulence of two predominant hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones and clonal methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates. Infect Immun 2008; 76:5133-8. [PMID: 18779343 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01697-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The virulence of SCCmec type IV hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates belonging to the major sequence type 8 (ST8 [Lyon clone]) and to a minor upcoming clone, ST5, was compared with that of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates of matching sequence types. In vitro adhesion to human airway epithelial cells (HAECs) as an indicator of dissemination and mortality in a murine sepsis model as an indicator of virulence were evaluated. Ten MRSA isolates and 8 MSSA isolates of ST8 and 8 MRSA isolates and 8 MSSA isolates of ST5 were characterized with respect to multilocus sequence type; agr, spa, and capsule typing; in vitro doubling time; toxin and adhesin gene profiles; and adherence to HAECs. Adherence was significantly lower in the MRSA ST5 group than in the ST8 groups. Infections with MRSA and MSSA isolates ST8 and ST5 were compared. No change in virulence related to the presence of SCCmec was observed, since ST8 but not ST5 caused a significantly lower mortality in its presence. Despite their similar genetic backgrounds, individual clonal MRSA and MSSA isolates were heterogeneous in adherence and virulence. No one of these specific virulence factors determined in vitro was related to mouse mortality. In conclusion, in a bacteremic model, mortality was dependent on the ST and was differentially modulated by SCCmec; within an ST, clonality was not associated with a homogenous outcome.
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Wallin TR, Hern HG, Frazee BW. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Emerg Med Clin North Am 2008; 26:431-55, ix. [PMID: 18406982 DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2008.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged over the last decade across the United States and the world, becoming a major pathogen in many types of community-acquired infections. Although most commonly associated with minor skin and soft tissue infections, such as furuncles, CA-MRSA also can cause necrotizing fasciitis, pyomyositis, osteoarticular infections, and community-acquired pneumonia. This article discusses the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of these infections from the perspective of the emergency physician.
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- Thomas R Wallin
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center-Highland Campus, 1411 East 31st Street, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
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Okubo T, Yabe S, Otsuka T, Takizawa Y, Takano T, Dohmae S, Higuchi W, Tsukada H, Gejyo F, Uchiyama M, Yamamoto T. Multifocal pelvic abscesses and osteomyelitis from community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a 17-year-old basketball player. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2008; 60:313-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2007] [Revised: 09/16/2007] [Accepted: 10/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Morgan MS. Diagnosis and treatment of Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-associated staphylococcal pneumonia. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2007; 30:289-96. [PMID: 17629464 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2007.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2007] [Accepted: 04/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-producing Staphylococcus aureus is emerging as a serious problem worldwide. Whilst usually causing skin and soft-tissue infections, particularly recurrent abscesses, there has in the last 10 years been an increase in the incidence of an associated devastating pneumonia affecting previously healthy young people and associated with a very high mortality. There are no evidence-based guidelines to consult for the management of PVL-associated staphylococcal pneumonia. The literature contains less than 100 cases, with widely differing antimicrobial therapies and the occasional use of other adjunctive therapies such as intravenous immunoglobulin, activated protein C and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. This literature review focuses on the salient features of diagnosis and management, with particular attention to the choice of antimicrobials.
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- M S Morgan
- Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK.
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Erdem AL, Avelino F, Xicohtencatl-Cortes J, Girón JA. Host protein binding and adhesive properties of H6 and H7 flagella of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:7426-35. [PMID: 17693516 PMCID: PMC2168434 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00464-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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It had been suggested that the flagella of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) might contribute to host colonization. In this study, we set out to investigate the adhesive properties of H7 and H6 flagella. We studied the abilities of EHEC EDL933 (O157:H7) and EPEC E2348/69 (O127:H6) flagella to bind to bovine mucus, host proteins such as mucins, and extracellular matrix proteins. Through several approaches, we found that H6 and H7 flagella and their flagellin monomers bind to mucins I and II and to freshly isolated bovine mucus. A genetic approach showed that EHEC and EPEC fliC deletion mutants were significantly less adherent to bovine intestinal tissue than the parental wild-type strains. In addition, we found that EPEC bacteria and H6 flagella, but not EHEC, bound largely, in a dose-dependent manner, to collagen and to a lesser extent to laminin and fibronectin. We also report that EHEC O157:H7 strains agglutinate rabbit red blood cells via their flagella, a heretofore unknown phenotype in this pathogroup. Collectively, our data demonstrate that the H6 and H7 flagella possess adhesive properties, particularly the ability to bind mucins, that may contribute to colonization of mucosal surfaces.
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- Aysen L Erdem
- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
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Gillet Y, Vanhems P, Lina G, Bes M, Vandenesch F, Floret D, Etienne J. Factors Predicting Mortality in Necrotizing Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Containing Panton-Valentine Leukocidin. Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45:315-21. [PMID: 17599308 DOI: 10.1086/519263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2007] [Accepted: 04/18/2007] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Necrotizing pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus is associated with a high mortality rate. We sought factors associated with vital outcome in 50 cases occurring from 1986 through 2005. METHODS We compared the clinical and biological characteristics of 50 patients according to their vital outcome and examined the characteristics of the corresponding S. aureus isolates. RESULTS The overall mortality rate was 56%, and the median survival time was 10 days. All of the deaths were attributed to S. aureus infection and were secondary to refractory shock and/or respiratory failure. Fatal outcome was associated with classical severity factors, such as the need for mechanical ventilation or inotrope support, and with onset of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Airway bleeding was strongly associated with fatal outcome (P=.002). Patients who had focal staphylococcal infection before the onset of pneumonia had a significantly lower mortality rate (P=.002). The main biological feature associated with death was leukopenia (P<.001). In multivariate analysis, leukopenia and erythroderma occurring within the first 24 h after admission to the hospital were independently associated with fatal outcome. Erythroderma was not associated with toxic shock syndrome toxin. CONCLUSIONS Airway bleeding, erythroderma, and leukopenia are associated with fatal outcome from Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive S. aureus necrotizing pneumonia. More work is needed to develop more efficacious therapy against this highly lethal disease.
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- Barbara C Kahl
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Münster, Domagkstrasse 10, D-49149 Münster, Germany
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Labandeira-Rey M, Couzon F, Boisset S, Brown EL, Bes M, Benito Y, Barbu EM, Vazquez V, Höök M, Etienne J, Vandenesch F, Bowden MG. Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin causes necrotizing pneumonia. Science 2007; 315:1130-3. [PMID: 17234914 DOI: 10.1126/science.1137165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 526] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a pore-forming toxin secreted by strains epidemiologically associated with the current outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and with the often-lethal necrotizing pneumonia. To investigate the role of PVL in pulmonary disease, we tested the pathogenicity of clinical isolates, isogenic PVL-negative and PVL-positive S. aureus strains, as well as purified PVL, in a mouse acute pneumonia model. Here we show that PVL is sufficient to cause pneumonia and that the expression of this leukotoxin induces global changes in transcriptional levels of genes encoding secreted and cell wall-anchored staphylococcal proteins, including the lung inflammatory factor staphylococcal protein A (Spa).
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- Maria Labandeira-Rey
- Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Burlak C, Hammer CH, Robinson MA, Whitney AR, McGavin MJ, Kreiswirth BN, DeLeo FR. Global analysis of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus exoproteins reveals molecules produced in vitro and during infection. Cell Microbiol 2007; 9:1172-90. [PMID: 17217429 PMCID: PMC2064037 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00858.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is a threat to human health worldwide. Although progress has been made, mechanisms of CA-MRSA pathogenesis are poorly understood and a comprehensive analysis of CA-MRSA exoproteins has not been conducted. To address that deficiency, we used proteomics to identify exoproteins made by MW2 (USA400) and LAC (USA300) during growth in vitro. Two hundred and fifty unique exoproteins were identified by 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with automated direct infusion-tandem mass spectrometry (ADI-MS/MS) analysis. Eleven known virulence-related exoproteins differed in abundance between the strains, including alpha-haemolysin (Hla), collagen adhesin (Cna), staphylokinase (Sak), coagulase (Coa), lipase (Lip), enterotoxin C3 (Sec3), enterotoxin Q (Seq), V8 protease (SspA) and cysteine protease (SspB). Mice infected with MW2 or LAC produced antibodies specific for known or putative virulence factors, such as autolysin (Atl), Cna, Ear, ferritin (Ftn), Lip, 1-phosphatidylinositol phosphodiesterase (Plc), Sak, Sec3 and SspB, indicating the exoproteins are made during infection in vivo. We used confocal microscopy to demonstrate aureolysin (Aur), Hla, SspA and SspB are produced following phagocytosis by human neutrophils, thereby linking exoprotein production in vitro with that during host-pathogen interaction. We conclude that the exoproteins identified herein likely account in part for the success of CA-MRSA as a human pathogen.
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- Christopher Burlak
- Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthHamilton, MT 59840, USA.
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- Reseach Technologies Branch, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthRockville, MD 20852, USA.
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- Reseach Technologies Branch, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthRockville, MD 20852, USA.
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- Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthHamilton, MT 59840, USA.
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- University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreToronto, ON, Canada, M4N 3M5.
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- Public Health Research Institute Tuberculosis Center, International Center for Public HealthNewark, NJ 07103, USA.
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- Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthHamilton, MT 59840, USA.
- *For correspondence. E-mail ; Tel. (+1) 406 363 9448; Fax (+1) 406 363 9394
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Boyle-Vavra S, Daum RS. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the role of Panton-Valentine leukocidin. J Transl Med 2007; 87:3-9. [PMID: 17146447 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 336] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Community-acquired (CA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection among individuals without healthcare-associated (HA) risk factors was first recognized about a decade ago. It has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis. Unlike HA-MRSA, CA-MRSA are usually pan-susceptible to non-beta-lactam antimicrobials. In addition to novel methicillin resistance genetic cassettes, many CA-MRSA harbor a phage harboring Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) genes and some data support the idea that PVL is responsible at least in part for the increased virulence of CA-MRSA. The tight association between the novel methicillin resistance cassettes and PVL phage cannot be explained, as they integrate into distinct sites on the S. aureus chromosome. This paper presents the evidence that CA-MRSA isolates are distinct strains emerging de novo from CA-methicillin susceptible isolates rather than from HA-MRSA isolates that have escaped from the hospital setting and that these novel CA-MRSA isolates may be more virulent than HA-MRSA. The second aim is to outline the progress in understanding the role of PVL in CA-MRSA pathogenesis.
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- Susan Boyle-Vavra
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Wijaya L, Hsu LY, Kurup A. Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Overview and Local Situation. ANNALS OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, SINGAPORE 2006. [DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v35n7p479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Introduction: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged worldwide. In contrast to healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA), CA-MRSA isolates are usually susceptible to multiple non-beta-lactam antibiotics and cause a distinct spectrum of infections in epidemiologically disparate populations – in particular, cutaneous abscesses, necrotising fasciitis and necrotising pneumonia. They arise from a broader genetic background, and possess differing virulence genes. We aim to describe the distribution of different molecular subtypes of CA-MRSA among various regions and discuss briefly the implications of CA-MRSA from a local perspective.
Methods: Literature review of articles on CA-MRSA, focusing mainly on reports where the genetic background of isolates had been analysed using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Singapore data were obtained from the local CA-MRSA database.
Results: MLST analysis demonstrated the presence of epidemic subtypes of CA-MRSA within most geographic areas. In parts of the United States, community MRSA infections currently exceed those caused by their methicillin-susceptible counterparts. In Singapore, CA-MRSA infections are increasing, predominantly as a result of the spread of ST30 clones.
Conclusion: Available evidence suggests that the emergence of MRSA from the community is not going to be a transient phenomenon. Local guidelines for dealing with this phenomenon at both therapeutic and preventive levels are needed prior to the potential development of a situation mirroring that of meso-endemic HA-MRSA in local hospitals or CA-MRSA epidemics in parts of USA.
Key words: Bacterial typing, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Infection control
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Garnier F, Tristan A, François B, Etienne J, Delage-Corre M, Martin C, Liassine N, Wannet W, Denis F, Ploy MC. Pneumonia and new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone. Emerg Infect Dis 2006; 12:498-500. [PMID: 16704793 PMCID: PMC3291452 DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.051040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Necrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentin leukocidin gene is a newly described disease entity. We report a new fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia. An S. aureus strain with an agr1 allele and of a new sequence type 377 was recovered, representing a new, emerging, community-acquired methicillin-resistant clone.
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- Fabien Garnier
- Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Limoges, France.
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Tada Y, Riedl E, Lowenthal MS, Liotta LA, Briner DM, Crouch EC, Udey MC. Identification and Characterization of Endogenous Langerin Ligands in Murine Extracellular Matrix. J Invest Dermatol 2006; 126:1549-58. [PMID: 16557233 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Langerin is a C-type lectin that is expressed by Langerhans cells (LC) and related immune cells, and believed to play an important role in antigen recognition and uptake. To determine if Langerin has endogenous ligands, we generated S protein binding, bacterial recombinant, mouse soluble Langerin, and utilized it as a probe. Recombinant soluble Langerin did not bind to lymph node or spleen cells, or keratinocytes as assessed via flow cytometry. However, Langerin did bind to surfaces of primary skin fibroblasts and NIH3T3 cells. "Ligand blotting" of fibroblast membrane-enriched fractions with Langerin revealed reproducible binding to 140 and 240 kDa proteins resolved in reduced denaturing gels. Characterization of these proteins using mass spectrometry suggested types I and III procollagen and fibronectin as candidate ligands. Langerin bound to type I procollagen that was immunoprecipitated from fibroblast lysates, but did not bind to fibronectin that was immunoprecipitated from fibroblast-conditioned media or mouse plasma fibronectin. These results indicate that Langerin selectively interacts with at least one ligand in extracellular matrix (type I procollagen). Langerin may have an unanticipated role in cell-matrix interactions that modulate LC development, localization, or function.
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- Yayoi Tada
- Dermatology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Massachusetts, USA
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Otsuka T, Saito K, Dohmae S, Takano T, Higuchi W, Takizawa Y, Okubo T, Iwakura N, Yamamoto T. Key adhesin gene in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 346:1234-44. [PMID: 16806081 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.06.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2006] [Accepted: 06/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) possessing the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene (luk(PV)) is associated with skin and soft tissue infections, osteomyelitis, and necrotizing pneumonia. There are geographically two types of CA-MRSA: one (sequence type ST30) that is worldwide (pandemic) and the other (sequence types, e.g., ST1, ST8 or ST80) that is continent-specific. The pandemic type, but not continent-specific type, possessed the bone sialoprotein-adhesin gene (bbp), which was associated with osteomyelitis. No recent hospital-acquired MRSA had the bbp gene, while past PVL-positive nosocomial outbreak-derived strains did possess it. The collagen-adhesin gene (cna) was associated with pandemic CA-MRSA, though with positive cases even in continent-specific CA-MRSA and PVL-negative Japanese region-specific CA-MRSA. Thus, the pandemic type is characterized by the combination of luk(PV) and bbp (and cna) genes. A specific real-time PCR assay for the bbp gene was developed, and dual assay for bbp and luk(PV) in one test tube became possible.
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- Taketo Otsuka
- Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infectious Disease Control and International Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
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Taneike I, Otsuka T, Dohmae S, Saito K, Ozaki K, Takano M, Higuchi W, Takano T, Yamamoto T. Molecular nature of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusderived from explosive nosocomial outbreaks of the 1980s in Japan. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:2323-34. [PMID: 16580669 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2006] [Revised: 03/08/2006] [Accepted: 03/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes is increasing worldwide. Nosocomial outbreak-derived (hospital-acquired) MRSA (HA-MRSA) in Japan in the 1980s was also largely PVL(+). PVL(+) HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA shared the same multi-locus sequence type (ST30) and methicillin resistance cassette (SCCmecIV), but were divergent in oxacillin resistance, spa typing, PFGE analysis or clfA gene analysis. PVL(+) HA-MRSA, which probably originated in PVL(+)S. aureus ST30, was highly adhesive (carrying cna and bbp genes), highly-toxic (carrying luk(PV) and sea genes) and highly drug-resistant. PVL(+) HA-MRSA was once replaced by other PVL(-) HA-MRSA (e.g., ST5), and is re-emerging as CA-MRSA.
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- Ikue Taneike
- Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infectious Disease Control and International Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757, Asahimachi-dori, Niigata, Japan
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Baron RM, Baron MJ, Perrella MA. Pathobiology of sepsis: are we still asking the same questions? Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2006; 34:129-34. [PMID: 16421210 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.f308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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- Rebecca M Baron
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Ferry T, Perpoint T, Vandenesch F, Etienne J. Virulence determinants in Staphylococcus aureus and their involvement in clinical syndromes. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2006; 7:420-8. [PMID: 16225779 DOI: 10.1007/s11908-005-0043-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen responsible for a variety of toxin-mediated and suppurative diseases. About 50 staphylococcal virulence factors have been described to date. In this review, we examine the clinical implications of key staphylococcal virulence factors in toxin-mediated diseases, septic shock, and severe focal infections such as arthritis, infective endocarditis, pneumonia acquired during mechanical ventilation, and necrotizing pneumonia. Staphylococcal pathogenicity is sometimes due principally to a single virulence factor, as in toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing pneumonia. In contrast, several virulence factors are involved in other staphylococcal disease, such as septic shock. A better knowledge of the mechanism of action of each virulence factor involved in the different staphylococcal diseases could open the way to the use of specific inhibitors in the clinical setting.
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- Tristan Ferry
- Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, INSERM E0230, Faculté de Médecine Laennec, 7 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69008 Lyon, France.
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Baltz RH, Miao V, Wrigley SK. Natural products to drugs: daptomycin and related lipopeptide antibiotics. Nat Prod Rep 2005; 22:717-41. [PMID: 16311632 DOI: 10.1039/b416648p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Daptomycin (Cubicin) is a lipopeptide antibiotic approved in the USA in 2003 for the treatment of skin and skin structure infections caused by Gram-positive pathogens. It is a member of the 10-membered cyclic lipopeptide family of antibiotics that includes A54145, calcium-dependent antibiotic (CDA), amphomycin, friulimicin, laspartomycin, and others. This review highlights research on this class of antibiotics from 1953 to 2005, focusing on more recent studies with particular emphasis on the interplay between structural features and antibacterial activities; chemical modifications to improve activity; the genetic organization and biosynthesis of lipopeptides; and the genetic engineering of the daptomycin biosynthetic pathway to produce novel derivatives for further chemical modification to develop candidates for clinical evaluation.
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Adem PV, Montgomery CP, Husain AN, Koogler TK, Arangelovich V, Humilier M, Boyle-Vavra S, Daum RS. Staphylococcus aureus sepsis and the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in children. N Engl J Med 2005; 353:1245-51. [PMID: 16177250 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa044194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Staphylococcus aureus has increasingly been recognized as a cause of severe invasive illness. We describe three children who died at our institution after rapidly progressive clinical deterioration from this infection, with necrotizing pneumonia and multiple-organ-system involvement. The identification of bilateral adrenal hemorrhage at autopsy was characteristic of the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, a constellation of findings usually associated with fulminant meningococcemia. The close genetic relationship among the three responsible isolates of S. aureus, one susceptible to methicillin and two resistant to methicillin, underscores the close relationship between virulent methicillin-susceptible S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates now circulating in the community.
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Gonzalez BE, Hulten KG, Dishop MK, Lamberth LB, Hammerman WA, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. Pulmonary Manifestations in Children with Invasive Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus Infection. Clin Infect Dis 2005; 41:583-90. [PMID: 16080077 DOI: 10.1086/432475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2005] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Primary pneumonia and metastatic pulmonary infection have become more common in patients with invasive community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus disease at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH; Houston). METHODS In this study, we sought to describe pulmonary involvement in children with community-acquired S. aureus invasive infection and to determine whether the presence of genes encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) (luk-S-PV and luk-F-PV) and collagen adhesin (cna) is correlated with pulmonary manifestations. Patients with invasive staphylococcal infections admitted to TCH between 1 August 2001 and 30 June 2004 were studied. Chest imaging and postmortem examination reports were reviewed. Isolates were tested for the presence of genes encoding PVL and collagen adhesin by PCR. RESULTS A total of 47 of 70 patients with community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infection had abnormal pulmonary imaging findings, compared with 12 of 43 patients with community-acquired methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) infection (P < .001). Pneumonia and/or empyema, in addition to septic emboli, were the most common findings. Metastatic pulmonary disease occurred more frequently among patients with osteomyelitis. Severe necrotizing pneumonia was present in 3 children coinfected with influenza and parainfluenza virus. The presence of genes encoding PVL was investigated in 67 MRSA and 36 MSSA isolates. Abnormal chest imaging findings were observed for 51 of 80 patients with PVL-positive isolates, compared with 2 of 23 patients with PVL-negative isolates (P < .001). Only 2 isolates (both of which were MSSA) from patients with abnormal chest radiograph findings carried cna. PVL remained independently associated with abnormal chest imaging findings in patients with secondary pneumonia in a multivariate analysis (P = .03). CONCLUSIONS Pulmonary involvement is commonly observed in patients with invasive community-acquired S. aureus infections. Community-acquired MRSA may cause primary community-acquired pneumonia, as well as metastatic pulmonary disease. The presence of genes encoding PVL is highly associated with pulmonary involvement by S. aureus.
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- Blanca E Gonzalez
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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