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Molecular typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine mastitic milk on the basis of toxin genes and coagulase gene polymorphisms.
Veterinary microbiology - 25 Feb 2005
Katsuda Ken, Hata Eiji, Kobayashi Hideki, Kohmoto Mariko, Kawashima Kenji, Tsunemitsu Hiroshi, Eguchi Masashi
Abstract excerpt
A total of 270 strains of Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from mastitic milk, were investigated by the polymerase chain reaction for the presence of genes encoding enterotoxins (sea to sej) and a toxic shock syndrome toxin (tst). One hundred eighty three (67.8%) bovine isolates possessed either one or more toxin genes and the most common pattern that coexisted in S. aureus was tst, sec, seg, and sei. Coagulase...
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