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Clonal Distribution and Differential Occurrence of the Enterotoxin Gene Cluster, egc , in Carriage- versus Bacteremia-Associated Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

2006; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 44; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.44.4.1555-1557.2006

ISSN

1098-660X

Autores

Alex van Belkum, Damian C. Melles∗, Susan V. Snijders, Willem B. van Leeuwen, Heiman Wertheim, Jan Nouwen, Henri A. Verbrugh, Jérôme Étienne,

Tópico(s)

Microbial Metabolism and Applications

Resumo

The Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin gene cluster, egc, was detected in isolates from healthy individuals and in those from patients with bacteremia. The egc genes cooccur and are slightly enriched in strains from healthy carriers (present in 63.7% of carriage-associated isolates versus 52.9% of invasive isolates; P = 0.03). Multilocus sequence typing revealed that successful staphylococcal clones usually harbor the egc locus.

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