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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2006, p. 1083-1085, Vol. 50, No. 3
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.50.3.1083-1085.2006
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Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Resistant to Multiple Antibiotics and Carrying the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes in an Algiers Hospital

Service de Microbiologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Mustapha Pacha, 16000 Algiers, Algeria,¹ Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, INSERM E0230, IFR62, Faculté de Médecine Laennec, 69008 Lyon, France²

Received 4 November 2005/ Returned for modification 30 November 2005/ Accepted 27 December 2005

Forty-five Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains were isolated in Algeria between 2003 and 2004; 18 isolates were isolated in the community and 27 in a hospital. Five PVL-positive hospital isolates were resistant to multiple antibiotics, including ofloxacin and gentamicin for three isolates.

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