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Identification and functional activity of a staphylocoagulase type XI variant originating from staphylococcal food poisoning isolates.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Sept 2016
Suzuki Y, Matsushita S, Kubota H, Kobayashi M, Murauchi K, Higuchi Y, Kato R, Hirai A, Sadamasu K
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UNLABELLED: Staphylocoagulase, an extracellular protein secreted by Staphylococcus aureus, has been used as an epidemiological marker. At least 12 serotypes and 24 genotypes subdivided on the basis of nucleotide sequence have been reported to date. In this study, we identified a novel staphylocoagulase nucleotide sequence, coa310, from staphylococcal food poisoning isolates that had the ability to coagulate...
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