Prevalence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates at a university hospital in Northern Cyprus: a pilot study

Table 1 Characteristics of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

Patient age	Admission	Specimen	Ward	nuc	mecA	pvl
25	Outpatient	Urine	Gynecology	+	+	+
99	Inpatient	DTA	Respiratory medicine	+	+	+
66	Inpatient	Catheter tip	Cardiology	+	+	+
58	Inpatient	BAL	Respiratory medicine	+	+	+
34	Inpatient	Nasal swab	Cardiology	+	+	+
1	Outpatient	Urine	Pediatrics	+	+	+
63	Inpatient	Nasal swab	Cardiovascular surgery	+	+	+
41	Inpatient	DTA	Respiratory medicine	+	+	+
55	Outpatient	Abscess/wound	Dermatology	+	+	+
20	Outpatient	Abscess/wound	Dermatology	+	+	+
28	Inpatient	Abscess/wound	General surgery	+	+	+
96	Inpatient	DTA	ICU	+	+	+
79	Inpatient	DTA	ICU	+	+	+
37	Outpatient	Abscess/wound	General surgery	+	- *	+
55	Inpatient	Urine	Urology	+	- *	+

ICU intensive care unit, DTA deep tracheal aspirate, BAL bronchoalveolar lavage
*These isolates were excluded from pvl prevalence analysis

ISSN: 1756-0500