Article
Sequence of the toxic shock syndrome toxin gene (tstH) borne by strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients with Kawasaki syndrome.
Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 1996
Deresiewicz R L, Flaxenburg J, Leng K, Kasper D L
Abstract excerpt
To explore whether a novel staphylococcal clone or structural variant of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 is associated with Kawasaki syndrome, six toxigenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus from Kawasaki syndrome patients were studied. The strains were divisible into two groups based on phenotypic a...
Topics
- Bacterial Toxins
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Enterotoxins
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Species Specificity
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Superantigens