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Poring over pores: α-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

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Figure 1: Hla is a virulence factor for CA-MRSA pneumonia.
Figure 2: Lysogeny with φSa2mw phage expressing PVL does not affect virulence in S. aureus Newman pneumonia.

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    Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg & Olaf Schneewind

  2. Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, 60637, Illinois, USA

    Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg

  3. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest, Gary, 46408, Indiana, USA

    Taeok Bae

  4. Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, 59840, Montana, USA

    Michael Otto & Frank R DeLeo

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Bubeck Wardenburg, J., Bae, T., Otto, M. et al. Poring over pores: α-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. Nat Med 13, 1405–1406 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1207-1405

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