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CASE REPORT
Successful management of Panton-Valentine leukocidine-positive necrotising pneumonia and A/H1N12009 influenzavirus coinfection in adult
  1. Karena Riedweg-Moreno1,2,
  2. Frederic Wallet1,
  3. Caroline Blazejewski3,
  4. Anne Goffard1
  1. 1Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France
  2. 2Department of Virology, University Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
  3. 3Intensive Care Unit, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anne Goffard; anne.goffard{at}univ-lille2.fr

Summary

This paper presents a case of community-acquired necrotising pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine leukocidine-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus and A/H1N12009 influenzavirus co-infection in a 26-year-old woman. Despite the presence of pejorative prognostic factors, the clinical course of the patient was favourable.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-201120

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