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Diverse enterotoxin gene profiles among clonal complexes of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the Bronx, New York.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2009
Varshney Avanish K, Mediavilla José R, Robiou Natalie, Guh Alice, Wang Xiabo, Gialanella Philip, Levi Michael H, Kreiswirth Barry N, Fries Bettina C
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Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) can cause toxin-mediated disease, and those that function as superantigens are implicated in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases. The prevalence of 19 enterotoxin genes was determined by PCR in clinical S. aureus strains derived from wounds (108) and blood (99)....
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