Clonal Distribution and Differential Occurrence of the Enterotoxin Gene Cluster, egc , in Carriage- versus Bacteremia-Associated Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (4) , 1555-7
Abstract
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.Keywords
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