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Detection and measurement of staphylococcal enterotoxin-like K (SEl-K) secretion by Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2014
Aguilar Jorge L, Varshney Avanish K, Wang Xiaobo, Stanford Lindsay, Scharff Matthew, Fries Bettina C
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin-like K (SEl-K) is a potent mitogen that elicits T-cell proliferation and cytokine production at very low concentrations. However, unlike the classical enterotoxins SEB and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1), the gene for SEl-K is commonly present in more than half of...
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