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Enterotoxicity and genetic variation among clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Jordan.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2006
Naffa Randa G, Bdour Salwa M, Migdadi Hussein M, Shehabi Asem A
Abstract excerpt
A total of 100 Jordanian clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates was analysed for the presence of the enterotoxin genes sea, seb, sec, sed and see using multiplex PCR. Twenty-three isolates (23 %) were potentially enterotoxigenic. The prevalence of sea, sec and sea plus sec among the total clinical isolates was 15, 4 and 4 %, respectively. None of the isolates harboured sed, seb or see genes. S. aureus isolates...
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