Article
A single clone of Staphylococcus aureus causes the majority of cases of toxic shock syndrome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jan 1990
Musser J M, Schlievert P M, Chow A W, Ewan P, Kreiswirth B N, Rosdahl V T, Naidu A S, Witte W, Selander R K
Abstract excerpt
Genetic relationships among 315 isolates of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus expressing toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) recovered primarily from humans with toxic shock syndrome (TSS) in five countries on two continents were determined by analyzing electrophoretically demonstrable alleli...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Toxins
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Bacterial
- Enterotoxins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Shock, Septic
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus