Staphylococcal enterotoxins
A novel superantigen isolated from pathogenic strains of Streptococcus pyogenes with aminoterminal homology to staphylococcal enterotoxins B and C
... streptococcal pathogenesis, we explored the possibility that a disease isolate expresses an uncharacterized superantigen. We screened culture supernatants for superantigen activity with a major histocompatibility complex ...
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Comparative evaluation of different enzyme linked immunosorbent assay systems for the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins A, B, C, and D
... Measurement of staphylococcal protein A and detection of protein A-carrying staphylococcus strains by a competitive ELISA method.. Ein preiswertes ELISA Lesegerat kombiniert mit dem prog[r] ...
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Simple assay for staphylococcal enterotoxins A, B, and C: modification of enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... Specificity of the triple-ball test: competitive inhibition of the uptake of the 100 g had been added gave positive results; i.e., enterotoxin-enzyme conjugate by the homologous 1 ng of [r] ...
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Serum antibodies to enterotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus with special reference to enterotoxin F and toxic shock syndrome
... The presence of antibodies to staphylococcal enterotoxins enterotoxins A through F in sera of healthy subjects n = 567 and in sera of patients with toxic shock syndrome n = 20 was determ[r] ...
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Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus in Raw Milk and Some Dairy Products in Port Said Governorate
... One of the goals of this study is to determine the presence of enterotoxin genes among isolated strains of S. aureus from dairy products. To achieve this goal, Multiplex PCR technique was applied on S. aureus colonies ...
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Cytokine secretion induced by superantigens in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, lamina propria lymphocytes, and intraepithelial lymphocytes.
... Staphylococcal enterotoxins are a family of structurally re- lated proteins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (19). These compounds, with molecular masses of between 24 and 30 kDa, are classified into six ...
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Staphylococcus aureus growth and enterotoxin production in different types of milk
... S. aureus is a commensal of warm-blooded animals and has also been isolated from the natural environment. It is the main cause of mastitis in cows (RABELLO et al., 2007) and is introduced into milk also by secondary ...
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Occurrence of Staphylococcus Aureus in Food Stuffs
... Staphylococcal food poisoning is usually characterized by self-limiting gastrointestinal symptoms, but sometimes the infection can be more serious or indeed deadly [2]. S. aureus is ubiquitous within the ...
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Detection of genes for enterotoxins, exfoliative toxins, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 in Staphylococcus aureus by the polymerase chain reaction
... Eight pairs of synthetic oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction PCR protocol to detect genes for staphylococcal enterotoxins A to E, exfoliative toxins A and B,[r] ...
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Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Atopic Patients Revealing Presence of Similar Strains in Isolates from Children and Their Parents
... Skin colonization with Staphylococcus aureus is often associated with atopic dermatitis, and staphylococcal enterotoxins have been implicated in the etiology of atopic disease. In this study, the ...
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CONSTRUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-TOXIC BACTERIAL ENTEROTOXINS AS VACCINE ADJUVANTS
... The development of adjuvants that can promote the delivery of purified subunit vaccines by mucosal routes, such as the nose or the mouth, is recognized as a top priority for vaccine research. The bacterial ...
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Anti Staphylococcal Calopins from Fruiting Bodies of Caloboletus radicans
... Anti Staphylococcal Calopins from Fruiting Bodies of Boletus radicans Anti Staphylococcal Calopins from Fruiting Bodies of Caloboletus radicans Fakir Shahidullah Tareq,†,‡ Choudhury Mahmood Hasan,§ M[.] ...
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The occurrence of enterotoxigenic isolates of B cereus in foodstuffs
... while the conformity of negative results was 16.6%. It is apparent from these results that B. cereus iso- lates from the processing environment represent a significant majority of isolates producing both ...
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Regulation of bacterial protease activity
... extracellular staphylococcal proteases are clustered in operons (see ...of staphylococcal serine protease (ssp) consisting of a gene (sspA) encoding glutamyl endopeptidase, also referred to as V8 protease, ...
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Staphylococcal β Toxin Modulates Human Aortic Endothelial Cell and Platelet Function through Sphingomyelinase and Biofilm Ligase Activities
... Collectively, our data suggest important roles for  -toxin in inflammatory processes at the vascular endothelium, as well as platelet activation during staphylococcal infection. Depending on the concentration of  ...
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STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA AND EMPYEMA
... countered in 9 primary cases and in 10 patients with secondary staphylococcal pneumonia. The diagnosis of pulmonary abscesses was made by roentgen examination in 1 3 patients,.. and in s[r] ...
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ACUTE STAPHYLOCOCCAL PERICARDITIS
... Roentgenogram of chest of Case 13: Demonstration of typical findings in staphylococcal pen- carditis after aspiration of fluid and injection of air into pericardial cavity.. vation was n[r] ...
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Counterimmunoelectrophoresis of staphylococcal antibody
... The differences were most apparent at the greater interwell distances, with the precipitin band farthest from the antibody well in Noble agar, intermediate in lonagar, and closest in aga[r] ...
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NEONATAL STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTION
... STAPHYLOCOCCAL DISEASE DATA EXPERiMENTAL GROUP. Reg, No[r] ...
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The Whole Shebang: The Gastrointestinal Tract, Escherichia coli Enterotoxins and Secretion
... bacterial enterotoxins mediate diarrhea not only by acting on enterocytes but also by interfering with or stimulating the ENS (Pothoulakis et ...by enterotoxins, these were recognized as playing a role in ...
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