title: [Community-acquired pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine producing Staphylococcus aureus: first description in Tunisia].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Community-acquired pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine producing S.aureus is a serious infection recently described. Many cases have been reported worldwide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We report here the first case in Tunisia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our patient is a previously healthy fourteen-year-old girl hospitalized for bilateral hypoxemic pneumonia. The clinical course had violently deteriorated two hours later, marked by massive hemoptysis that lead to rapid degradation of her hemodynamic state and death. Toxicologic research and bloodcultures were negatives. A post-mortem pleural specimen culture yielded a meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain that carried the Panton-Valentine leucocidin genes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Community-acquired pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine producing Staphylococcus aureus is a serious affection unrecognized in our country. Thus, this pathogen must imperatively be included in the spectrum of those responsibles for pulmonary infections in children and young adults
authors.affiliation: Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Charles Nicolle de Tunis.
authors.forename: Mabrouka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saïdani
authors.forename: Insaf
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mesrati
authors.forename: Anis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benzarti
authors.forename: Khédija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boussetta
authors.forename: Souad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bousnina
authors.forename: Moncef
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamdoun
authors.forename: Saïda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ben Redjeb
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D005098:Exotoxins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007956:Leukocidins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000378:metabolism*; D014416:Tunisia
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D005098:Exotoxins; D007956:Leukocidins; C078284:Panton-Valentine leukocidin