Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus: a position statement from the International Society of Chemotherapy

Affiliations

• ¹ Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester, UK and University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: kordosaeed@nhs.net.
• ² Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
• ³ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
• ⁴ Public Health England-Southampton and University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire & Arran & Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁷ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata, Udine, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
• ⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹⁰ School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.
• ¹¹ NHS Lanarkshire and Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹³ Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester, UK and University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK; Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, Public Health England, UK.
• ¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• ¹⁵ Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Departments of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ¹⁹ Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ²⁰ AORN dei Colli, D. Cotugno Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Naples, Italy.
• ²¹ Department of Dermatology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ²² MVZ Synlab, Leverkusen, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Leverkusen, Germany and Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²³ Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, Pontchaillou University Hospital, 35033 Rennes cedex, France.
• ²⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre and Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.