Genotypes and toxin gene profiles of Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates from China.

A total of 108 S. aureus isolates from 16 major hospitals located in 14 different provinces in China were characterized for the profiles of 18 staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes, 3 exfoliatin genes (eta, etb and etd), and the toxic shock syndrome toxin gene (tsst) by PCR. The genomic diversity of...

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Main Authors: Yanping Xie, Yiping He, Andrew Gehring, Yu Hu, Qiongqiong Li, Shu-I Tu, Xianming Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3240617?pdf=render