Identification of the<i>Staphylococcus aureus etd</i>Pathogenicity Island Which Encodes a Novel Exfoliative Toxin, ETD, and EDIN-B

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We identified a novel pathogenicity island in Staphylococcus aureus which contains open reading frames (ORFs) similar to the exfoliative toxin (ET) gene, glutamyl endopeptidase gene, and edin-B gene in tandem and the phage resistance gene, flanked by hsdM, hsdS (restriction and modification system), and IS256. The protein encoded by the ET-like gene showed 40, 59, and 68% amino acid sequence identities with...

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