TY - JOUR AU - Li, Min AU - Wang, Yanan AU - Zhu, Yuanjun AU - Dai, Yingxin AU - Hong, Xufen AU - Liu, Qian AU - Li, Tianming AU - Qin, Juanxiu AU - Ma, Xiaowei AU - Lu, Huiying AU - Xu, Jie AU - Otto, Michael T1 - Increased Community-Associated Infections Caused by Panton-Valentine Leukocidin–Negative MRSA, Shanghai, 2005–2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 11 SP - 1988 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During 2005–2014, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections increased in Shanghai, China. Most infections were caused by sequence type 59 S. aureus that lacked Panton-Valentine leukocidin. This finding challenges the notion that Panton-Valentine leukocidin is necessary for epidemiologic success of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus. KW - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus KW - MRSA KW - community-acquired infections KW - community-associated infections KW - Panton-Valentine leukocidin KW - bacteria KW - Shanghai KW - China KW - PVL DO - 10.3201/eid2211.160587 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/11/16-0587_article ER - End of Reference