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

Nat Med. 2007 Dec;13(12):1405-6. doi: 10.1038/nm1207-1405.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Animals
  • Bacterial Toxins / chemistry*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / physiology*
  • Exotoxins / chemistry*
  • Exotoxins / metabolism
  • Hemolysin Proteins / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Leukocidins / chemistry*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Models, Biological
  • Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / metabolism*
  • Virulence

Substances

  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Exotoxins
  • Hemolysin Proteins
  • Hlya protein, E coli
  • Leukocidins
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin