"Leukocidins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pore forming proteins originally discovered for toxic activity to LEUKOCYTES. They are EXOTOXINS produced by some pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS and STREPTOCOCCUS that destroy leukocytes by lysis of the cytoplasmic granules and are partially responsible for the pathogenicity of the organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D007956
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.695.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukocidins- Leukocidins
- Leukocidin Proteins
- Proteins, Leukocidin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukocidins" by people in Profiles.
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An outbreak of cutaneous abscesses caused by Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus among gold mine workers, South Africa, November 2017 to March 2018. BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 24; 20(1):621.
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Unconventional SCCmec types and low prevalence of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin exotoxin in South African blood culture Staphylococcus aureus surveillance isolates, 2013-2016. PLoS One. 2019; 14(11):e0225726.