"Leukocidins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pore forming proteins originally discovered for toxic activity to LEUKOCYTES. They are EXOTOXINS produced by some pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS and STREPTOCOCCUS that destroy leukocytes by lysis of the cytoplasmic granules and are partially responsible for the pathogenicity of the organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D007956
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.695.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukocidins- Leukocidins
- Leukocidin Proteins
- Proteins, Leukocidin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukocidins" by people in Profiles.
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Chadwick SG, Hart CE, Mordechai E, Adelson ME, Gygax SE. Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec type and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of vaginal and nonvaginal MRSA clinical isolates. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 Oct; 74(2):210-2.
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Srinivasan A, Bankowski MJ, Seifried SE, Jinno S, Perkins R, Singh S, Ying C, Tice AD, Kim W, Hayden RT. A probe-based method for confirmation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and detection of Panton-Valentine leukocidin and tst virulence genes. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Aug; 70(4):541-3.
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Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Srivastava DK, Flynn PM, Shenep JL, Bankowski MJ, Hayden RT. Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Dec 15; 53(7):1216-20.
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Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Bitar W, Srivastava DK, Shenep JL, Bankowski MJ, Flynn PM, Hayden RT. Short communication: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children and young adults infected with HIV. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2009 Dec; 25(12):1219-24.