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Clonal study of enterotoxin-B producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jun 1994
Renaud F, Bornstein N, Meugnier H, Forey F, Bes M, Fleurette J
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Sixty-nine Staphylococcus aureus strains, 39 of which produced staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB+) and 14 of which were associated with toxic shock (TS+), were studied using the following markers: serotyping, phage typing, antibiotyping, ribotyping, zymotyping and pulsed-field electrophoresis typing. Analysis of the results showed that the enterotoxin B producing strains were derived from at least three clones:...
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