Associations between enterotoxin gene cluster types egc1, egc2 and egc3, agr types, enterotoxin and enterotoxin-like gene profiles, and molecular typing characteristics of human nasal carriage and animal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

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Twenty genes encoding enterotoxin and enterotoxin-like proteins have been described in Staphylococcus aureus strains. Five of these occur commonly in the enterotoxin gene cluster (egc: selo, selm, sei, seln and seg). In the sei-seln intergenic region, two pseudogenes, psient1 and psient2, can be present or an additional gene designated selu or a variant selu(v). Whilst frequencies of loci bearing pseudogenes...

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