Article
Enterotoxin and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 production of methicillin resistant and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strains.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Sept 1997
Schmitz F J, MacKenzie C R, Geisel R, Wagner S, Idel H, Verhoef J, Hadding U, Heinz H P
Abstract excerpt
In this study the production of enterotoxin A-D and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) of 181 methicillin resistant (MRSA) and 100 methicillin sensitive (MSSA) Staphylococcus aureus first isolates from different patients was investigated. All the MRSA- and MSSA isolates in the study were colle...
Topics
- Bacterial Toxins
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Enterotoxins
- Genotype
- Humans
- Methicillin Resistance
- Netherlands
- Phenotype
- Serotyping
- Shock, Septic
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Superantigens