Breast milk transmission of a Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus strain causing infantile pneumonia

I Le Thomas; P Mariani-Kurkdjian; A Collignon; A Gravet; O Clermont; N Brahimi; J Gaudelus; Y Aujard; J Navarro; F Beaufils; E Bingen

doi:10.1128/JCM.39.2.728-729.2001

Breast milk transmission of a Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus strain causing infantile pneumonia

J Clin Microbiol. 2001 Feb;39(2):728-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.39.2.728-729.2001.

Authors

I Le Thomas¹, P Mariani-Kurkdjian, A Collignon, A Gravet, O Clermont, N Brahimi, J Gaudelus, Y Aujard, J Navarro, F Beaufils, E Bingen

Affiliation

¹ Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bacterial Toxins
DNA Fingerprinting
Exotoxins / analysis
Eye Infections, Bacterial / diagnosis
Female
Furunculosis / microbiology
Humans
Infant
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
Leukocidins / analysis*
Male
Milk, Human / microbiology*
Pleuropneumonia / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / transmission*
Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis
Staphylococcal Infections / transmission*
Staphylococcus aureus / classification*
Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification
Staphylococcus aureus / pathogenicity

Substances

Bacterial Toxins
Exotoxins
Leukocidins
Panton-Valentine leukocidin