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Enterotoxin and toxic shock syndrome toxin‐one production by staphylococci isolated from mastitis in sheep
Author(s) -
ORDEN JOSE ANTONIO,
CID DOLORES,
BLANCO MARIA EMILIA,
QUITERIA JOSE ANTONIO RUIZ SANTA,
GÓMEZLUCIA ESPERANZA,
FUENTE RICARDO
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
apmis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0903-4641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1992.tb00851.x
Subject(s) - enterotoxin , mastitis , coagulase , microbiology and biotechnology , staphylococcus aureus , micrococcaceae , toxic shock syndrome , toxin , biology , staphylococcus , staphylococcal infections , bacteria , antibiotics , antibacterial agent , biochemistry , genetics , escherichia coli , gene
From 160 staphylococci isolated from ovine mastitis, 125 were identified as coagulase‐positive staphylococci (CPS) and 35 as coagulase‐negative staphylococci (CNS). Of these, 108 (87.8%) S. aureus produced at least one of the staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) described. However, no CNS was found to be enterotoxigenic. Enterotoxin C (SEC) was the type most frequently produced. TSST‐1 was shown to be produced by 91 (74.0%) of S. aureus , almost invariably in combination with SEC. Three CNS strains were also found to produce TSST‐1 (two strains of S. xylosus and one strain of S. epidermidis). ;