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Invasive Infection Caused by Community-Associated Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain Not Carrying Panton-Valentine Leukocidin in Korea

Seung Soon Lee, Yu Jin Kim, Doo Ryeon Chung, Ki-Suck Jung, and Jae-Seok Kim^*

Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonology, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang-si, Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: jaeseok{at}hallym.or.kr.

Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-negative, SCCmec type IVa strains are the most common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) circulating in the community in Korea. This report describes five elderly patients presenting in 2006–2007 with invasive community associated-MRSA infection caused by PVL-negative, SCCmec type IVa strain with sequence type 72 and spa type t324.