Article
Effect of capsulation on the resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to the bactericidal lipids produced in abscesses.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 May 1992
Mortensen J E, Kapral F A
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus strains differ in their sensitivity to some of the bactericidal lipids produced by the host in staphylococcal abscesses. To evaluate whether the presence of a capsule might account for these differences, capsulate and non-capsulate S. aureus strains were compared for their sensitivity to staphylococcal abscess homogenates and the neutral lipid fraction derived from such material. Although...
Topics
- Abscess
- Animals
- Bacterial Capsules
- Lipid Metabolism
- Lipids
- Mice
- Mutation
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus