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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2001, p. 728-729, Vol. 39, No. 2
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.728-729.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Breast Milk Transmission of a Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Producing Staphylococcus aureus Strain Causing Infantile Pneumonia

Isabelle Le Thomas,1 Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian,1 Anne Collignon,2 Alain Gravet,3 Olivier Clermont,1 Naïma Brahimi,1 Joël Gaudelus,4 Yannick Aujard,5 Jean Navarro,6 François Beaufils,7 and Edouard Bingen1,*

Service de Microbiologie,1 Service de Néonatologie,5 Service de Gastro-Entérologie,6 and Service de Réanimation,7 Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, Service de Microbiologie2 and Service de Pédiatrie Générale,4 Hôpital Jean -Verdier, Bondy, and Institut de Bactériologie de la Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg,3 France

Received 5 September 2000/Returned for modification 17 October 2000/Accepted 31 October 2000

We report on a 38-day-old infant who developed pleuropneumonia due to a Staphylococcus aureus strain responsible for familial furunculosis, which was acquired by maternal breast-feeding. All isolates from the infant and parents were genetically related by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis and produced Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital R. Debré, 48, Bd. Sérurier, 75019 Paris, France. Phone: 33 (1) 40 03 23 40. Fax: 33 (1) 40 03 24 50. E-mail: edouard.bingen{at}rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2001, p. 728-729, Vol. 39, No. 2
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.728-729.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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