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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 collected in a period between 1993 and 1995 from specimens sent from 11 different acute care hospitals in the greater...
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